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How Well Do You Know Big Pharma? Take The Quiz
Pharma facts | Jon Healey | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics
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With the pharmaceutical companies at the bargaining table on healthcare reform, and Congress considering new restrictions on drug advertising, it may ...
Drug Industry Payback For White House Surrender: $150 Million In TV Advertising
New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama's h...
Is Obama Selling Us Down the River to Big Pharma?
Bryan Young | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
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Bringing lobbyists from Big Pharma into the health care negotiations is anathema to the process and makes them feel like they deserve a place at that table.
White House Confirms: Deal With Big Pharma Bars Price Negotiations
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
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In closed-door negotiations with President Obama and his top aides throughout the spring, Big Pharma offered its support for comprehensive health care...
Promises to the Drug Industry: Like Renegotiating NAFTA?
Dean Baker | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business
The government is giving the drug companies incentives to promotes their drugs even when they aren't the best medicine for patients. This goes directly against efforts to contain costs by promoting good medicine.
Dem Senators: White House Says It Cut No Deal With Drug Makers
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
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A senior White House aide told Democratic senators Thursday that the administration did not make a deal with the pharmaceutical lobby that would preve...
Why Aren't Progressive Groups Protesting Obama's Back-Room Deal with Big Pharma?
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
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Progressives were outraged when the Bush administration banned Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices. It's time for outrage when the Obama administration does the same.
The White House Deal with Big Pharma
James Love | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
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The White House has abandoned any real effort to control costs in the pharma sector and Democrats have taken this hands-off approach as a green light to side with Big Pharma.
A Practicing Doctor's Prescription for Health Care Reform
Dr. Jordan Shlain | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home
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The government has no problem regulating Wall Street, nuclear energy, the health care system and the legal system. Where are the regulations for maintaining personal health?
The Horrifying Hidden Story Behind Drug Company Profits
Johann Hari | Posted 09.04.2009 | Business
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Far from being a font of innovation, the drug market has become stagnant. Companies squander a fortune developing "me-too" drugs so they can take out a new patent and receive another avalanche of profits.
Republicans, Healthcare and Money
Stu Kreisman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
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All but three Republicans voted against the stimulus, yet they all are gladly taking the money. Seeing a trend here?
An Interview With Nick Reding, Author of Methland
Patrick Sauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
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Oelwein is a microcosm of small town everywhere, but Methland shows that the drug abuse is a symptom, not the cause, of the deeply ingrained problems facing rural America.
House Dem's Placebo Health Care Reform
Rob Kall | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
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So now, we're starting to see what the House of Representatives is going to offer we, the people. And it flat out sucks. For starters, the public option doesn't go into effect until 2013.
Big Pharma Winning Most Of What It Wants In Health-Care Overhaul
Wall Street Journal | ALICIA MUNDY and LAURA MECKLER | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceuticals industry, which President Barack Obama promised to "take on" during his campaign, is winning most of what it wants i...
Drug Companies Target Poorer Nations During Downturn
wsj.com | AVERY JOHNSON | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
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PETARE, Venezuela -- Julio Rodriguez was on a sales call at a clinic in this slum overlooking Caracas recently when he heard four gunshots go off near...
The Burden of Health Care Costs and What You Can Do About It
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Unfortunately, in our commercialized health care system, there is little incentive to implement preventative measures at the precautionary level at the FDA.
Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare?
Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
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Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.
Gutting the Health Care Plan: The Scorpion and the Congress
Paul Loeb | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
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The insurance companies are talking a good line of late. But it makes no sense to embrace a partner who you know will ultimately betray you.
Is the Insurance Industry Getting Behind Comparative Effectiveness Research?
Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home
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This week many watched as the president joined with the largest associations of insurers and doctors to acknowledge the excessive costs of health care...
We've Got Civil Rights; Now, We Just Need Civil Eats
Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
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Yes, habits must change, but in order to accomplish that, you've got to give consumers true freedom of choice.
Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy and Keep 1.7 million Jobs in the U.S.: Part III
Dr. Behzad Mohit | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business
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What can we do to keep U.S. automakers and other manufacturers in the country? Could instituting universal health care help?
Is Katherine Heigl Really Such a %$#@!
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
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For 16 days Katherine, I and the rest of the crew worked 12 to 14 hours a day. She napped on my couch, she played with my kids, she knitted on my porch. She even wore my underwear.
Revolutionary Road, A Beautiful Mind and Truthfulness
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 04.25.2009 | Entertainment
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Sam Mendes and Michael Shannon remind us that people who are diagnosed with seriously mental illness can, when feeling respected, say profound things and should be taken seriously.
Pharma: Still Chasing Skirts
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business
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As someone who spent ten years inside the pharmaceutical industry, I can tell you one thing for sure: Big Pharma goes where the money is. And the money is with the ladies.
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