We need to consider what has happened to the quality of our lives since we gave away control of our bodies; we must learn to use pharmaceuticals more appropriately and not medicate ourselves into oblivion.
Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were abo...
Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Milk. All special interest patrons of America's Big Money bordello. What are good progressives to do? Either we get lobotomies or we fix the way the country finances politics.
My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.
WASHINGTON - The pharmaceutical industry's primary trade group spent nearly $6.2 million lobbying in the second quarter on health care reform provisio...
Do not allow America to continue being manipulated by special interest groups and help the people of America understand that they must control their own fate.
I am not an expert on health care reform. But I am an individual who is sick and tired of having one industry have so much control over my personal and business life.
I wasn't going to weigh in on the healthcare reform debate. Truthfully, the debate seems particularly pointless to me because I don't think there is a...
The town halls make for good television, but they're a side-show to the main event. The real story should be about the back room deals reportedly being negotiated with the Obama administration.
The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim was on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" with Dylan Ratigan to discuss the internal memo detailing what the White House gave t...
A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-rangin...
Serious health care reform is gone with the wind. It cannot be retrieved. And the question: 'who really is Barack Obama?' is now more compelling than ever.
The American people did not vote for "bipartisan" solutions that split the difference between the failed ideology of the last eight years and the change the president and the super-majorities they elected in both houses of Congress promised.
When Cheney was caught having secret meetings with oil companies, we denounced it as a case of foxes in the henhouse. But Obama's secret meetings, he assures us, are in the public interest.
For some, the system works best when elites make the most fundamental decisions for our society, unencumbered by the trappings of "democracy", and when the population is depoliticized, misinformed, or both.
Reformers were naïve if they thought the world had changed simply because there were new tenants in the majority offices on the Hill or in the White House.
In the latest in a series of conflicting statements, White House officials on Monday insisted that they never entered into a deal with pharmaceutical ...
The White House may be willing to cave on drug price negotiations and having a public option. Giving us health care reform without those key ingredients is like serving a PBJ sandwich without the peanut butter or the jelly.
Last week, after being reported in the Los Angeles Times, the White House confirmed it has promised Big Pharma that any healthcare legislation will ba...
In yet another in a series of evolving statements and backtracks, an official with the country's major pharmaceutical lobby said on Monday that it nev...