Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to ban drug ads on TV. It wouldn’t be easy - West Hawaii Today

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Finally this loser advocates for something I don't like.

Read what a lot of you are saying in this thread about "rare W" and the like and realize this poignant saying...

"You can't only piss in one PART of the pool"

You won't get just the one thing you want from RFK, you'll get it all - Stop taking the bait, dipshits. This is the candy he's trying to give you while sliding down your pants with the other hand and slathering coconut oil on your b-hole.

He's a weird mix of "cannot be allowed near the job" and great ideas.

Well, two. This and getting the stigma off of psychedelics.

Nothing's worth having an anti-vaxxer in charge, though. Not even close.

Rare RFK W.

I guess the worm didn't eat all of it.

There are fools who believe that Big Pharma won't take over Big Supplement (and the ads will be for supplements).

Yes, that would be good, but let's be real here, this is basically a statement that says "hey big pharma, I'm not getting enough campaign contributions!! Get off your ass and give me some cash!" - Trump

This will NEVER get passed in a Trump administration. It's all window dressing on a big pile of streaming shit.

For as many foolish things Kennedy has talked about wanting to institute, a drug ad ban is not one of them. Kinda awesome, actually.

This is like when you get the right answer using the wrong formula

I wonder if that ban includes quack remedies?

Nearly all countries do this. Even the regressive ones. It's one of the biggest reasons why pharma is a massive cash cow in the US, alongside the fact that we don't negotiate drug prices aside from a handful of drugs and only medicare/medicaid and only the past <4 years or so.

Broken clock

Heh, he's crazy as all get-out, but I agree with getting drug ads away from the uneducated public. If an ad has to have "ask your doctor about", it shouldn't exist anywhere, not just TV.

He just wants this one to de-educate people on the existence of drugs in general, but honestly, if you need to see a doctor to talk about them/get them, they don't need advertising in the first place. It does open up a bigger discussion on knowledge about the availability of pharmaceutical treatments, though, since some people probably ask their doctors about symptom treatment based on ads. It's purely reactive and the wrong way to take care of your health, but, I won't ignore the obviously systematic issues with access to affordable healthcare for proactive care, vs. "make this hurting stop" care.

It's fucking weird how this motherfucker is against vaccines, for raw milk, but also wants to do things that actually would be good, as well, like this. That worm really did a number on him...

Ads, yes. Class action legal ads for pharmasutical side effects/injury can stay. Do your testing ya smucks.

Fishing for bribes imo.

Fuck him and his insane and dangerous suggestions about medical stuff.

But "ask your doctor about X" ads where X is a prescription-only drug should definitely be banned. Why the fuck would I ask my doctor about a medication if they haven't already suggested it to me?

Ooh, anything else about him worth mentioning?

"Man wants to spend time socializing with children and giving them gifts" is an odd lead in for "unapologetic child molester stalks local park"

This is how people end up down conspiracy theory rabbit holes. A conspiracy nut has just enough actually good ideas that people start to think they’re smart and believe the utter nonsense they spew afterwards.

I still don’t like him, but I’d love to see this happen.

This is a good thing. His motivation may be more sinister. It could create a situation where non medical treatments can be advertised without restriction and genuine medicines can’t. It needs to be applied to all treatments, even unregulated ones.

This idea has been around longer than RFK Jr. has been relevant in politics. These ads are illegal in most of the civilized world.

The more I read about him, the more my opinion solidifies that his position is simply: be against all of mainstream medicine.

Shit so we'd be like Europe? Okay sign me the hell up

Honestly kind of weird, you would expect him to allow literally anybody to advertise their drugs from his usual deregulatory stance.

Legitimate good ideas wrapping around a few extremely terrible ones is exactly how people get pulled in to the scam.

A stopped clock...

As a Canadian it's very weird to me that it's allowed in the USA.

Every once in a while the worm in his brain takes over pulls of something like this

"No way to fix this" says only country where this happens

When I used to live/work abroad then come back to the US it was so alarming seeing drug commercials again. It just shouldn’t exist. So i completely agree with the worm on this one

calling it now: RFK be gone in less than 6 months

doesn't say much, considering most of the "best people" trump picks don't last that long

I would be curious if a commercial reminding people it's flu season, or that the new COVID boosters are out would fall under this. As I don't think banning reminders without a specific drug push is in the spirit of a ban like this, but then looking at who is proposing it gives me pause. And I know that the article mentions seniors seeing vax commercials to remind them, but it doesn't 100% say if those are included or not.

Remember, this would probably include flu/COVID vaccines at CVS just as much as restless leg syndrome pills. Just because the words "ban drug ads" sound like a good thing doesn't mean the implementation is acceptable. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

This would be huge

Wow, finally something I agree with him on

Get rid of corn syrup getting added to everything, ban drug ads on TV, I gotta say I don't disagree with everything this guys says he wants to do but I also feel like it's mostly just talk.

Yeah do that, definitely.

For every good idea he has 5 very bad and/or dangerous ones.

Weird people on this platform. It's OK to agree with people you dislike sometimes.

That would be awesome. However, some TV channels are nothing but pharma ads, so they would fold overnight, no more funding.

He just wants to get rid of the entire healthcare system.

It seems like the combination of project 2025 and RFK has the goal of making the masses sick and weak, so every minority can be targeted and replaced by evangelical over breeders.

So, a modern spin on white eugenics.

RFK reminds me of something and I just figured out its business suit man. https://vesilsidestudio.artstation.com/store/2Gw/business-suit-man

Broken clocks, something something

He still sucks, but his batting average on a lot of medical and food policies would make most MLB stars jealous.

well at least all the people in iron lung machines will be able to watch tv without prescription ads.

(just kidding the supreme court would never allow the feds to restrict corporate speech)

Why stop there.

I 110% agree with this.

He's just fishing for pharmaceutical industry "donations".

If he would just get on board with vaccines and generally not be crazy, he might actually do some good here in other areas. Too bad we can’t have a non-crazed person do some of these things

Of course it will be easy, comparatively. Yeah, there'll be a drop in ad revenue, but most countries don't allow this shit anyways.

Ok

Disagree. Drug ads are somewhat informative, especially new treatments.

Your PCP probably can’t keep up with all of the new options that show up every month.