Hillary Clinton's New Health Care Plan:Ban Some Drug Company Advertising

The New York Sun reports on Comrade Clinton:

She proposes to create new restrictions on commercial free speech — and attack the already ailing newspaper and magazine industries — by saying she would "limit direct-to-consumer advertising" by drug companies. It'll be interesting to see how Mrs. Clinton's base in the abortion-rights community reacts to the idea of restricting, say, Duramed's advertising of Plan B, the emergency contraceptive.

And it is all framed in a rather grim, budget-crunching way — not speaking optimistically about medical innovation or warmly about the doctor-patient relationship, but pessimistically about how health care in America is costing more than we can afford. "Health care costs are spiraling out of control. Premiums have almost doubled since 2000 — increasing four times faster than average wages," Mrs. Clinton said yesterday.

No word yet on how Comrade Clinton wants to take on New York state Medicaid fraud.