As Biden noted, the FCC “proposed a new rule that would require cable and satellite TV providers to give consumers the all-in price for the service they’re offering up front.” The proposed rule would force companies like Comcast, Charter Spectrum, and DirecTV to publish more accurate prices.
I’ll believe it when I see it. It seems like things like this come up all the time and never actually go anywhere.
Now do ticket prices.
Now do everything.
Australia recenlty rolled out some pretty simple “applies to everything” rules. Whatever price you advertise, you have to sell your product/service for that price.
You can only charge extra fees if those are optional fees for additional services on top of the product you’ve advertised.
If I had a dollar for every news article that talked about how such-and-such regulatory body “might” do something that benefits consumers over corporations, I could actually afford all those hidden fees.
Let’s get pharma out of advertising too. NZ and USA are the only countries in the world to allow it.
NZ and USA are the only countries in the world to allow it.
No, a ton of others also allow it but there might be more more (or fewer) restrictions. But yes, advertising pharma products is pretty weird. Your doctor should proscribe your meds and you should not ask for something specific because an ad told you so. And many of those proscription free cold medicines are not really necessary or effective anyway.
Direct-to-consumer advertising is the promotion of prescription medicines to the general public. New Zealand and the USA are the only two countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines.1 Feb 2004
Sweet, like 30 years to late and for a dying industry.
Greater transparency under capitalism is always a good thing. I have to admit, one thing Trump did that I liked was to force hospitals to publish their prices. I can’t think of a good reason people buying a thing shouldn’t know how much it costs beforehand.
That was part of ACA/Obamacare my dude, Trump had no role in it and had vowed to repeal it but failed. 2718(e) of the Public Health Service Act.
