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Carolyn Blake's avatar

I am an American. I have asthma. I lived in Romania for seven years. I was able to obtain my inhaler, and Montelucast there for $30 a month. When I came home to America it was over $600 per month for the exact same drugs, same amounts and my insurance company would not pay for it and I had to go without. The exact same medications with the exact same packaging. Nothing repackaged or specialized for Romania, just the very same products for $30 a month. I always said the most valuable thing in my house is my inhaler.

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One of the things RFK junior has spoken about, and as a physician, I have talked about for years, is to outlaw pharmaceutical advertising for prescription drugs. For one thing, it influences both doctors and patients in ways that are not conducive to appropriate or cost-effective use of drugs. But more importantly, we know what advertising costs on major broadcast or cable networks, especially in prime-time. That money should be put back into reducing the cost of drugs for Americans and R&D. I know it's a way of buying off news organizations to prevent negative reporting on Big Pharma, but there's just no excuse for it. This is one place where government intervention is needed.

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