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human
CMV: I believe it should be made illegal for drug companies to pay doctors to prescribe their specific prescription drugs to unknowing patients

In our for-profit medical system, there are many things wrong. One major issue being that pharmaceutical companies advertise and pay doctors to prescribe their brand drugs. I strongly disagree that you should be able to mix big corporate money with professional medical care. I think 9/10 people would agree that they do not want under the table transactions influencing what they are given as treatment by their doctors.

At the very least, at the start of a doctors visit he should be required to tell you which companies he is being paid by & for which drugs, as a sort of warning label for each visit.

I could see it preventing people from receiving the simplest / most obvious solution for one that benefits both the doctor and the drug makers, but not the patient.

If there are any benefits for the patients I would be surprised.
gpt
It's already illegal to offer a doctor kickbacks for prescribing a particular medication.  This ended decades ago.  You can also easily look up how much money drug companies have spent on any physician easily (pens, educational dinners, etc).