I think we have to attack this problem on many fronts. The more we learn about it, the more we realize there are an awful lot of problems. One of them is all of the money that the pharmaceutical companies are spending on marketing. I happen to believe in free speech, so they ought to be able to advertise; but we ought to at least know how much of that drug dollar is going to advertising. They ought to have to disclose that to people like us so that seniors know how much they are spending on marketing.
Gilbert Gutknecht: “I think we have to attack this problem on many fronts. The more we learn about it, the more we realize there are an…”
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Discussing the need for transparency in pharmaceutical marketing expenditures.
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