Health Care Industry Spends $30B A Year Pushing Its Wares, From Drugs To Stem Cell Treatment

Abstract: “Whenever pharma or a hospital spends money on advertising, we the patients pay for it — through higher prices for drugs and hospital services,” said Shannon Brownlee, senior vice president of the Lown Institute, a Brookline, Mass., nonprofit that advocates for affordable care. “Marketing is built into the cost of care.”