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Another Attempt to Show the RUC Behind the Curtain
The "King of Pain" Recants - Pharmaceutical Paid Key Opinion Leader Admits It Was All "Misinformation"
This may be a first. A Wall Street Journal story announced that the "key opinion leader" who played a pivotal role in the promot...
Is the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule invalid?
Here are a few reasonable questions I decided to elevate as a post of its own. In the face of the discovery of industry influence over comme...
Old Mystery Solved? Former FDA Reviewer Speaks Out About Intimidation, Retaliation and Marginalizing of Safety
At my Dec. 2005 post " Report: Life Science Manufacturers Adapt to Industry Transition " I wrote: ... The recognition of a gap in ...
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CDER,
FDA,
regulatory capture,
retalation,
whistle-blowers
The Revolving Door's Bearings Overheat - Two Examples of the Health Care Insiders Who Keep it Spinning
Two recent stories illustrate a kind of conflict of interest affecting government health care policy. Note that neither story appeared in an...
Head of Lobbying Firm with Health Care Clients Walks Through Revolving Door into Executive Branch
A Washington Post op-ed described the latest case of a revolving door frequent flier, or perhaps frequent revolver, with health care connec...
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corporatism,
regulatory capture,
revolving doors
Unequal Justice Under Law - Comparing Cases of Alleged Misbehavior by Large Health Care Organizations and Individuals
How the wealthy and powerful have become able to play by a different set of rules than those affecting ordinary people may be the defining i...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Quiet Coziness with Wall Street
An article from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reveals a new aspect of the growing coziness between the US government and big c...
Will the Citigroup Ruling Challenge Health Care Leaders' Impunity?
A federal judge's refusal to approve yet another cozy settlement that was supposed to resolve allegations of wrong-doing by a giant corp...
Health Care Also Needs to Challenge "Crony Capitalism," the "New Gilded Age, and "the Idolatry of the Market"
The increasing size and scope of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, and continuing instability in the finance system, most recentl...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding... -
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur... -
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...
