Health care industry spends $30 billion a year on marketing

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Spending on health care marketing nearly doubled from 1997 to 2016, soaring to at least $30 billion a year, according to a study.

 

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With trump using poor people a pawn to get his wall built Poor people and some above poverty live from check to check with no savings How do they pay for food heat gas with no check no savings. His response or the mortgage companies work with people like them Shameful hurtful

Now what in God’s name would make anyone say but most of all believe that Hillary Clinton would be behind high drug cost Ahw has said she has demonstrated she has spoken up she has let it be clear that she cares foethese type of things but you people are probably in agreement

I think that Hillary Clinton is behind for the high cost of medicines , i heard about it somewhere and there is a book that talks about that too. I will try to locate that book , for my own info.

annagorman What % is from the drug industry

This shows how NBC News and other media outlets support rising health costs to boost their bottom lines and don't protect citizens or consumers. greed

And premiums have jumped by at least twice that much.

That sure would pay for a lot of health care.

Won't it be better to spend less on marketing and advertising, perhaps that could translate into 'Cheaper Health Care' & Medication?!

Capitalism

Why market it? Everyone needs it they will call them.. Ask Geicgo

This is nearly equal to inflation.

Yes, the 10 minute long, high-production commercial spots that have pushed us all away from cable tv in general sort of gave it away

THIS is why health care cost in the U.S. are exponentially higher than in all other industrialized nations on earth. It's because we allow for-profit companies to obscenely make sky high profits from our shared human vulnerabilities. Obscene, sickening and barbaric.

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