Bernie Sanders pushes for ban on prescription drug ads
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:15.3 | Okay, so somebody's mad that prescription drugs are being advertised on television? |
| 0:20.2 | Yeah, Bernie Sanders. |
| 0:22.3 | There you go. He's introduced a new bill. It's called the End Prescription Drug Ads Now Act in the |
| 0:29.7 | Senate, and it's an advertising ban. The bill would ban direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription |
| 0:36.5 | drugs on TV, radio print, and all digital platforms. |
| 0:40.4 | Okay, so it is the Kendall and Casey show. I'm Rob. That's Casey. All right. Now, I've got many ways we can go at this. First, I would say that it's a reminder of how an opportunity to remind our audience how incredibly broken the entire |
| 0:55.3 | health care system is and how government interference and rules and regulations and many other |
| 1:04.3 | things have created a health care system that is unaffordable for many people. And so my gut instinct is that any sort of |
| 1:14.9 | new government intervention into health care probably not going to end well because every other |
| 1:20.5 | government intervention into health care has not ended well. Remember if you like your plan, |
| 1:24.7 | you can keep it. Remember your plan won't go up one single dime? |
| 1:28.3 | Well, I not only lost my plan, but the new one they were going to make me buy was a lot more expensive than the one I had before. |
| 1:34.3 | Really? |
| 1:34.7 | It's like the government lied to me. |
| 1:37.2 | You know, like it's wild. |
| 1:38.9 | I think about when I was in my early 20s and I owned my business, obviously I was self-insured. |
| 1:51.8 | And you could get like a really good, I guess they called it high deductible plan. |
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