{"id":59796,"date":"2025-06-15T08:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59796"},"modified":"2025-06-15T08:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:44:41","slug":"the-end-of-big-pharma-ads-on-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59796","title":{"rendered":"The End Of Big Pharma Ads On Television?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/senators-propose-ban-big-pharma-ads?fbclid=IwY2xjawK5K2FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFkd1BvVFAzUnVHNXMwMFhDAR72S1Z7e3H3mmSRYEx8rFzaPjcExzW60l7P6ews_rJ2qxd1Tw6J4wadQ5LfTA_aem_QyUeRvC_gLB5D0peYgHaOg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zero Hedge<\/a> posted an article about a plan to adopt a bill in the Senate to ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs directly to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, both independents, on Thursday will introduce<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> legislation that would ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs directly to consumers<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; including through<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">television, radio, print, digital platforms, and social media<\/span>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/senators-to-propose-ban-on-drug-advertising-to-consumers-9ad257c2?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1\"><em>WSJ\u00a0<\/em><\/a>reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The proposal would mark a sweeping shift in the U.S. advertising landscape<\/span>, where pharmaceutical companies are among the largest spenders. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prescription drug brands <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">accounted for roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/marketing\/pharma-marketers-weigh-economy-and-chance-of-tv-ad-ban-during-upfronts-season\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">13 percent of all ad spending<\/a> on linear television in 2025, totaling approximately $2.18 billion so far this year<\/span>,\u00a0according to iSpot\u00a0data. In 2024, the industry spent $3.4 billion on traditional TV ads between January and August alone, according to ad-tracking data.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cThe American people don\u2019t want to see misleading and deceptive prescription drug ads on television<\/span>,\u201d Sanders said in a statement. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cThey want us to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and ban these bogus ads.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The interesting part of this is that the current Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly called for this ban. Both of the Senators introducing the bill voted against his confirmation as Secretary. So if they are in agreement with some of his most basic policies, why did they vote against his nomination? Is this simply another example of the Groucho Marx song:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I don&#8217;t know what they have to say<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>It makes no difference anyway<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Whatever it is, I&#8217;m against it<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>No matter what it is or who commenced it<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I&#8217;m against it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That sort of thinking does not move the country forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Zero Hedge posted an article about a plan to adopt a bill in the Senate to ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs directly to consumers. The article reports: Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12206,18014,18155,18154,9732,8976],"class_list":["post-59796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-groucho-marx","tag-health-and-human-services-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-prescription-drug-advertising-ban","tag-senator-angus-king","tag-senator-bernie-sanders","tag-zero-hedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59797,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59796\/revisions\/59797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}