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Is This The End of Costly and Harmful Pharmaceutical Advertising?
BY CHRISTOPHER SHAYS AND RICHARD SWETT, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS For more than two decades, Americans have lived with a peculiar feature of their healthcare system: television commercials in which smiling actors jog through sunlit parks, while a voice rapidly lists side effects ranging from nausea to death. Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising has become so normalized that it […]
Abigail Spanberger Is Siding with Big Pharma, Not Patients
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger protects Big Pharma while hardworking Virginians foot the bill. Instead of holding drug manufacturers accountable for price gouging Virginians with astronomical list prices, she parrots the industry’s favorite talking points to shift the blame elsewhere. When a politician echoes the drug industry’s script and accepts their money, they ally to the […]
Katherine Clark’s Big Pharma Problem
When House Democratic Whip, Katherine Clark, took on her leadership role in 2023, she promised to fight for affordable prescription drugs and hold pharmaceutical companies accountable. But the financial record tells a more complicated story that Clark’s rhetoric on Big Pharma is just big talk. Congresswoman Katherine Clark is now in the top 20 membersof Congress taking the […]
Congressman Buddy Carter is Big Pharma’s Fiercest Friend.
Pill-Paid Politics. The Carter Way. Congressman Buddy Carter is one of Big Pharma’s fiercest friends. The Georgia Republican and pharmacist likes to tout himself as a watchdog for patients. However, the money trail suggests he’s guarding the industry’s profits, not consumers’ wallets. Big Pharma has provided Congressman Carter with a steady flow of industry cash […]
Who’s really hiking drug costs?
The Pharma Accountability Project was back on Capitol Hill yesterday to meet with Representatives during the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing, “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain.” This was the second hearing in the Committee’s series on the affordability crisis in the […]
You Can’t Fix Healthcare Costs Without Talking About Pharma
I’m writing this from a buzzing hallway just outside the House Energy and Commerce hearing on insurance companies. You can practically feel the tension bouncing off the marble. The title of the hearing was An Examination of Health Insurance Affordability” and everyone took turns talking about premiums, copays, and deductibles. But I kept wondering, “why […]
The Pharma Accountability Project Names Naja Hall as President
Advocate and storyteller to lead national push for truth and transparency in health care ahead of high-stakes 2026 elections New York, New York — The Pharma Accountability Project (TPAP), a grassroots initiative dedicated to exposing and challenging the financial influence of pharmaceutical companies over media and policy, today announced that Naja Hall has been appointed […]
Governor Spanberger, Keep That Same Energy
Virginia just made history — and maybe, just maybe, hope. Abigail Spanberger wasn’t just the first woman elected to become Virginia’s governor, but also the first to walk onto that victory stage and do something rare for an incoming politician: she called out Big Pharma. In her victory speech, she said, “We’re going to crack […]
Congratulations, Governor Sherrill. We’ll Be Watching.
New Jersey just elected Mikie Sherrill as its next governor—a victory her campaign painted as a win for “families fighting the opioid crisis.” But if history teaches us anything, it’s this: when Big Pharma cuts the checks, the public pays the price. Let’s look at the record. Sherrill’s congressional campaigns accepted more than $25,000 from […]
How Big Pharma Turned Drug Ads into a Billion-Dollar Influence Machine
Across the country, prescription drug commercials fill nearly a quarter of all evening television ad slots. Viewers see happy families, beach walks, and miracle results, followed by a long list of side effects read at high speed. It feels familiar because it never stops. In 2024, pharmaceutical companies spent more than $10.1 billion on consumer […]
A look Inside Big Pharma’s Stealth Marketing Machine
At its core, stealth advertising refers to promotional content that disguises itself as neutral, third-party, or editorial content, concealing or downplaying its commercial intent. The goal is to circumvent consumer skepticism, regulatory disclosure requirements, or overt marketing restrictions. Because audiences believe they’re being presented with information or education rather than a sales pitch, stealth advertising […]
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