Phrma Lobby

Matt Sledge

Montana Attorney General Race Rocked By Out-Of-State Corporate Donations In Wake Of Citizens United

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.22.2012

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The Copper Kings once lorded over Montana, picking the state's governors and senators. The grip of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company was so tight tha...

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Drug lobby gave $9.4 million to nonprofits that spent big on 2010 election

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.28.2012

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The Center for Public Integrity

By Michael Beckel, iWatch NewsThe drug lobby's trade association was a multimillion-dollar donor to nonprofit groups that were actively working to e...

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Andrea Stone

Obama Won't Fully Use Power Of Feds To Lower Medicare Drug Prices For Seniors

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 06.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In laying out his framework to cut the deficit, President Obama appears to have abandoned a campaign promise he reneged on last year in...

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Amanda Terkel

The Ghosts Of Health Care Deals Past

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The deals that the White House cut with major industries during the health care debate are threatening to come back to haunt the adminis...

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Big Pharma Wins Big With Health Care Reform Bill

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Chalk one up for the pharmaceutical lobby. The U.S. drug industry fended off price curbs and other hefty restrictions in President ...

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Hope vs Power: The PhRMA Deal That Was and the OFA Campaign That Wasn't

Micah Sifry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House Phrma Deal, David Axelrod, Health Care Reform, PhRMA Lobby, Ofa, Health Care, David Plouffe, Barack Obama, Organizing for America, Politics News
Micah Sifry

This is just speculation, folks, but imagine if Obama had mobilized Organizing for America from the very beginning as a battering ram to confront PhRMA and its allies in Congress head on?

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New White House Health Care Proposal May Destroy PhRMA Deal

Sunlight Foundation | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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This morning the White House released a new health care proposal that may be used as a blueprint for a compromise between House and Senate versions of...

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The Legacy of Billy Tauzin: The White House-PhRMA Deal

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: PhRMA Lobby, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Pharmaceutical Industry, Phrma, Health Care, Barack Obama, Billy Tauzin, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

Within a few months of being sworn in, the President and his aides were sitting down with leaders from the pharma industry to hash out a deal that they thought would make health care reform possible.

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GOP Lawmaker Seeks Documents On Obama Pharma Deal

The Hill | Molly K. Hooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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A House Republican congressman is pushing the Obama administration to reveal the specifics of deals it struck with various groups on healthcare reform...

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Chamber Of Commerce Tops Health Reform Lobbyist List

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 05.25.2011

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The National Journal's Under the Influence blog has published a comprehensivelist of the top 25 spenders -- and lobbying groups -- in the movement to ...

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Lobbyists See No End To Health Reform Frenzy

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite the lackluster economy, some lobbyists expect decades' worth of job security thanks to this year's health care reform haul, reports The Hill. ...

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Ryan Grim

Pharma Deal Shuts Down Senate Health Care Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Drug Importation, PhRMA Lobby, Health Care Reform, Politics News

The White House, aided by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), is working hard to crush an amendment being pushed by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) to allow for the ...

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Baucus And White House Wooed Industry Groups For Support

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 05.25.2011

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Politico reports that the White House and Sen. Max Baucus helped create a corporate-backed health reform campaign by fostering a relationship with ind...

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Anna Eshoo's PhRMA Boondoggle: The Devil Is In Her Details

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: PhRMA Lobby, Anna Eshoo, Breast Cancer, Henry Waxman, Jay Inslee, Biologics, Boondoggle, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

Thank you, Rep. Eshoo, for your commitment to having a bill that does not allow for "evergreening." Now the question becomes -- how are we going to get one?

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A Death Every 12 Minutes: The Price of Not Having Medicare for All

John Geyman | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Geyman

In 2002, that more than 18,000 Americans between the ages of 19 and 64 were dying each year as a result of being uninsured. The new number is two and a half times that figure.

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Ryan Grim

Baucus Bill Sticks To Pharma Deal That Supposedly Wasn't Struck

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama PhRMA, White House, Senate Finance Committee, PhRMA Lobby, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Health Care, Lobbyblog, Politics News

The bill unveiled by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has been blasted as a major giveaway to insurance companies. But the even bigger win...

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Republicans Defending Medicare: Duplicity Beyond Belief

John Geyman | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Geyman

Republicans have fought against Medicare from the very beginning. But in their strategy to kill health care reform, they are all of a sudden sounding like defenders of Medicare against the evils of big government.

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The Final Sprint for Health Care Has Now Begun

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Robert Reich, Health Care Reform, PhRMA Lobby, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Reich

The real political race for health care has just begun. Obama's speech should be seen as the starting gate of a two-month sprint between two competitors -- and they're not Democrats and Republicans.

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Baucus Co-Op Plan "Authored" By Ex-Insurance Industry VP

Campaign Silo | Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Mike Ross, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Lobbyists, Healthcare Cooperatives, Kent Conrad, PhRMA Lobby, Max Baucus, American Medical Association, Healthcare Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Wellpoint, Politics News

When Max Baucus circulated his draft plan earlier this week, the PDF documentation page (image) indicates that the "author" was ex-Wellpoint VP Liz Fo...

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The Corporate "Alliance" For Health Care Reform: V - Organized Medicine

John Geyman | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Geyman

Organized medicine has become so fragmented that no one group speaks for the profession. In fact, some groups have endorsed major health care reform.

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Why Obama Won August: Ambinder

The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 05.25.2011

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At the beginning of the month, I predicted that August might turn out be a bloodbath for Democrats. At the time, the Democratic self-containment on he...

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The Corporate "Alliance" For Health Care Reform: III. The Hospital Industry

John Geyman | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Geyman

Likely rewards to the hospital industry from health care reform? If events continue in direction they are now, hospitals will thrive, with more insured people and generous accommodations from government.

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The Corporate "Alliance" for Health Care Reform: Pledges, Agendas, Tactics and Likely Rewards the Insurance Industry

John Geyman | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Geyman

The drug industry's agenda is crystal-clear: expand its markets through wider insurance coverage, avoid price controls, and gain maximal patent protection.

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Fiscal Conservatism and Health Care Reform: a Bipartisan No-Brainer?

John Geyman | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Geyman

Why this incredible disconnect among our elected representatives shaping the future of one-sixth of our economy and future health care of all 310 million of us?

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Health Care "Reform" 2009: The Fallacy of Affordability and Cost Containment

John Geyman | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Geyman

Despite some useful provisions, it is wishful thinking to believe that health care "reform", as projected by current proposals being considered in Congress, can actually make health insurance more affordable and make a real difference to people already burdened by their spiraling costs.

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