Steve Cortez

And again, not only will it make us better as a country, healthier and happier, but it's going to save us economically.

We simply can't afford the trajectory that we're on in terms of health care spending.

So for both moral and spiritual reasons, for the physical vitality of our country, and then additionally, because of the economic necessity, we've got to enact the Maha Agenda.

Sure.

No, you make a fantastic point, right?

And I'm not being Pollyanna.

I'm not saying any of this is easy.

It clearly is not.

But to me, the first step, the lowest hurdle to get over, it's still a hurdle, but the one that we can get over the quickest, I believe, is what you mentioned, which is banning pharmaceutical advertising.

used to in this country for a long time.

Most of the world does right now for very valid reasons.

And it's not only because we don't want the marketing machine of big pharma as well as some of the marketing machines of big food to convince people to live healthy lifestyles and to use products they may not really need.

But more than that is their control over the news media in this country.

It is pernicious.

It's vast.

And it's very effective.

But we ban that advertising.

We take that weapon away.

That is the first way that we start to attack the power of big pharma.

But look, there's a lot of battles ahead.