The high price of medicine

I'm watching the "Making a Killing" video available on the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) site which I would highly recommend.

It is amazing the amount of money involved in pushing drugs and the disasterous results that stem from all the drug use.

While there are likely many things contributing to the high price of medicine these days, there are a couple of obvious simple steps that could be taken to immediate reduce overall costs:

1. Knock off the straight to the public advertising of drugs -- the public should have all the INFORMATION and DATA available about presciption drugs -- but advertising is not information, it is advertising. They are different things.
2. Knock off the widespread drugging of Americans, particularly children, with psych drugs. Just saving the cost of the drugs would be a good thing but the drop in overall medical cost would far exceed the cost of the drugs -- which is not inconsiderable -- as it would also lessen so much other collateral damage.

As a small business owner, I know how much it would help to have more affordable health insurance -- it is about time that obvious areas of greed and no results be cut out of the medical systems for which we all pay too much.