Advertising Prescription Drugs

Hi Humans,
Let me give you my opinion about one piece of the Health Care puzzle. I understand that one of the biggest costs ( maybe the biggest) in Health Care is prescription medication. One keeps seeing advertisements on television for prescription drugs.
First of all, the cost of advertising goes into the cost and therefore the price of the medication. And, of course, if one company advertises, their competitors need to do the same in retaliation in order to compete.
Secondly, these advertisements are intended to cause patients to pester their doctors to prescribe the drugs they see on television whether they are really indicated or not and whether they are the most cost effective or not (and they are often the least cost effective). This defeats the purpose of making certain drugs prescription only. The reason the government decided to make those drugs only by prescription is that it felt that those medicines are important enough that their management should be directed by a knowledgeable professional person (a physician). Of course the patient will make the ultimate decision about whether he or she will take the physician's advice. But it would be best if the drug company advertisers (who have the ulterior motive of pushing their products) were not part of that decision making process.
So, I would suggest that the law should not allow the advertising of prescription drugs (for humans or pets).
Chloe