Wednesday, February 11, 2015

John Oliver on Marketing to Doctors

I think John Oliver is one of the funniest guys on TV.  He has a show called Last Week Tonight and his latest episode was a hilarious and cynical take on big pharma and marketing to doctors.  You can watch it here – it is about 17 minutes long:


I covered this subject a few years ago – you can see that post here.

I still think the ProPublica website (http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/) is a better way to see how much money your doctor is getting from big pharma than the openpayment site that is part of the Affordable Care Act (https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov).