text: Nice post Steve.    You've got the right 'search dog' attitude, follow the small of money when it comes to politics.
  
  Only the US allows public advertising of prescription drugs.    It's incredibly expensive, is often deceitful propaganda (Viagra is sold by sex and the ad appeal is obvious).     No other developed nation has authorized drug pushing by modern marketing involving billions of dollars and both conscious and unconscious methods of persuasion — all of which is built into the cost of the drugs Americans purchase.  
  
  If the Republicans made only one tweak to the ACA it should be to ban public advertising and they'd make a positive move away from excessive spending and drug addiction in this country.     
  
  Follow the money, this is America.