I’m still surprised at the people who see more information as “government intervention” or “the government telling me what to do.” People, no one is telling you you can’t eat fast food.
But it’s easier to take “personal responsibility” (something so many of you are screaming should be the issue here) if you have all the facts. This law is just about putting all the facts in front of you. So you can take that personal responsibility.
I remember the bad old days before drug companies were forced into this kind of disclosure. People quietly popped their pills because the doctor said, “Take this!”
Now we may giggle at the laundry list of symptoms and side-effects that drug companies have to disclose (especially 4 day erections) but suddenly, just popping a pill doesn’t seem like the cure-all it was once perceived to be.
More than once, I’ve had a doctor prescribe something, I’ve heard about the side-effects and been able to say, “Wait, that’s not acceptable to me. What else can address this?” There is usually a much more benign way to address a health issue, but I’m not sure I would have been able to force that issue with the information the government made drug companies provide me.
Who was it who said, “An educated populace is the best defense for a Democracy”?
