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Drug Reimportation – Out

December 15, 2009 By doubleman 22 Comments

Byron Dorgan's amendment to allow for drug reimportation failed this evening.   The roll call certainly made for some strange bedfellows, though it does seem that some Yeas were illegitimate. The defenders of the PhRMA deal were forced … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health-care-reform, obama, phrma, senate

PhRMA and the public good

February 19, 2009 By Charley on the MTA 9 Comments

Money for comparative effectiveness research for drugs was salvaged in the federal stimulus, despite the intense lobbying of the drug industry. This is a good thing. PhRMA has criticized the bill, arguing (risibly) that somehow more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: drugs, health-care, phrma, stimulus

Drug makers love ignorance

February 10, 2009 By Charley on the MTA 28 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: auerbach, costs, disclosure, drugs, health-care, health-care-costs, massachusetts, phrma, prescription-drugs

Money changers in the temples of healing

December 29, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 15 Comments

Hope you checked out the Globe's fine work -- an old story, but never too late to tell -- on the historic "gentleman's agreement" to essentially create a health care provider/insurer cartel, between Partners and Blue Cross Blue … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bcbs, costs, health-care, health-care-costs, marcia-angell, partners, phrma

“Take a backbone pill”

December 14, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: costs, disclosure, dph, drugs, health-care, health-care-costs, massachusetts, phrma, prescription-drugs

Lack of disclosure still doesn’t add up.

December 12, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 7 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: auerbach, costs, disclosure, drugs, health-care, health-care-costs, massachusetts, phrma, prescription-drugs

PhRMA and Patrick administration say “Trust us.” No thanks.

December 8, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 4 Comments

This came out in Saturday's Globe: The Patrick administration looks ready to bow to PhRMA, by not requiring companies to disclose how and whom they're paying for clinical trials. Go figure -- someone pays you money, you're … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: drugs, gift-ban, health-care, health-care-costs, phrma

PhRMA puts the screws to Patrick

August 8, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 5 Comments

PhRMA is freaking out over the possibility of gift restrictions to docs, and urging the Gov to amend or veto S.2863, the big fat Act To Promote Cost Containment, Transparency, and Efficiency in the Delivery of Quality Health … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: drugs, health-care, massachusetts, patrick, phrma, prescription-drugs

Prominent Docs Weigh in on Pharma Gift Restrictions and Disclosure

August 7, 2008 By kathleen 2 Comments

For another perspective on this issue, see the letter included below from four prominent MA medical leaders: Dr. David Coleman, Chief of Medicine at Boston Medical Center; Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief, NEJM and Harvard Medical … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: biotech, health-care, massachusetts, pharmaceutical, phrma, physicians

No PhRMA Gift Ban in Health Care Bill

August 4, 2008 By johnk 10 Comments

In addition, there are exemptions: The marketing code of conduct adopted by the department shall allow: (1) the provision, distribution, dissemination or receipt of peer reviewed academic, scientific or clinical information; (2) the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ban, phrma

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