If you were hoping for a modicum of media reform, aimed at reducing health care costs and delivering better services in the Obama Administration's forthcoming health care reform bill, you can forget it.
Sunlight Foundation | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Posted 05.25.2011
The Huffington Post recently learned that pharmaceutical industry insiders are expecting the health care reform legislation agreed to between the Whit...
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
If Obama doesn't weigh in forcefully and say "no" to the hush money arranged in January for Big Pharma, big insurance, and the AMA, America's middle class will get walloped. And so will he in 2012.
Dr. Arnold Klein | Posted 05.25.2011
I often wonder why there are not legions of Physicians at my side, standing up to Big Pharma. Why can't the others see the sky is really falling?
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011
With a robust public option dead, the only way to prevent a massive Democratic-sponsored bailout of the health care industry is to regulate insurance premiums and put a trigger on individual mandates.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Greg Palast | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Washington Times | Posted 05.25.2011
The nation's largest pharmaceutical lobbying group is preparing a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign to tout the importance of free-market ...
Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011