[npsimons]

Maybe I'm lucky enough that I see my doctor regularly and he keeps up (without any pharmaceutical marketing?) on every medicine that might help me out, but why should consumers be force to depend on that?

You think that marketing helps? Maybe your doctor is unduly influenced by pharma marketing and prescribes you the worse drug that give you IBD; hell, maybe he prescribes you the wrong drug altogether because of marketing, and you die. It may sound beyond the pale, but borderline cases involving antidepressants (perhaps the most overmarketed drugs) have already happened.