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No Wonder We're Sick

Sorry to have been gone for awhile.  It's summer (and the livin' is easy..........as the old song goes).  I'll try get more active from now on.  There's a lot going on.

But first, I have been watching a bit more TV than usual (starting with the World Cup as discussed in my last post).  I noticed there are a ton of ads on TV for pharmaceuticals.  Many of them are for ailments I've never heard of and most of them require a doctor's prescription.  The ads tell you ask your doctor about Zylgist or something.  Poor docs, as if they don't have enough to do already.

At any rate, I decided to make a list of  them.  Here's what I came up with in about two and a half hours of prime time TV (mostly the national news) over a two week period:

  • Ablify
  • Advair
  • Caltrate
  • Cialis
  • Citrical
  • Dulcolax
  • Gas-X
  • Lunesta
  • Mucilax
  • Nexium
  • Novartis
  • Omnaris
  • Onglyza
  • Plavix
  • Prevacid
  • Prilosec OTC
  • Reclast
  • Restasis
  • Spiriva
  • Toviaz
  • Zantac
  • Zegerid

Kind of scary.  Never used to be this way.  Is this why drug costs are so high?


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