Yesterday's Globe Editorial Bottle bill, election laws shouldn't get lost in last-minute frenzy on Beacon Hill is spot on. As the end of the session looms, lawmakers should be sure to pass these measures: Voting. Each of the four … [Read more...]
Public Health Council votes on gift ban and disclosure regulations tomorrow morning
The Public Health Council will vote on the Department of Public Health's gifts ban and disclosure regulations Wednesday, March 11th. Consumer advocates are calling on the council to do the right thing and vote to strengthen the … [Read more...]
Drug makers love ignorance
via Krugman, we see that PhRMA would like to keep us as their pet mushrooms: Kept in the dark, and fed nothing but @#$%. WASHINGTON -- The drug and medical-device industries are mobilizing to gut a provision in the stimulus bill that … [Read more...]
“Take a backbone pill”
In case you missed it, from Friday's Globe unsigned editorial:Last summer, Governor Patrick signed a health cost control bill that included strict new limits on financial ties between drug companies and doctors. Unfortunately, the … [Read more...]
Lack of disclosure still doesn’t add up.
Last Friday, the Globe got its mitts on the draft regulations for the pharmaceutical company gift ban. Monday morning I wrote a post decrying the lack of a disclosure requirement for pharma companies disclose how much and to whom … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick’s Military Industrial Investment Portfolio
As the Boston Globe reported, Deval Patrick recently unloaded some of his stock holdings that "wouldn't meet some of the liberal "smell tests" for socially responsible investing." Specifically, that article mentioned: Alliant … [Read more...]