The Department of Justice and the pharmaceutical industry are not keen on pharmaceutical mail order. According the the DOJ the concern is that people are ordering illegal drugs through the mail from overseas pharmacies. No doubt this is true.
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Are the Medical Journals Entirely in the Hands of Big Pharma?
Can we trust what comes out of the medical journals if 97% of the advertising within these journals is bought by pharmaceutical companies? Considering that these journals determine much of the direction of healthcare research and policy, it’s a question which needs to be asked seriously. Remember Big Pharma wrote a big piece of Obamacare.
Crony Contraception: The Maker of the “Plan B” Pill Has Strong Ties to HHS.
Obamacare is now the law of the land. Later this year it will reach deep into our economy. How the law will change American life we still don’t know for the most part.
One thing we do know is that many pharmaceutical companies will do very well under the Affordable Care Act. One of those companies is Barr Laboratories, maker of the “morning after pill” Plan B.
Big Pharma and Universities Partner Up Like Never Before
Got to get to the best and brightest, and most importantly their ideas and university intellectual property, early.
Our Crony Capitalist Infested Military
The article below recounts the debate within the military about the present policy of prosecuting soldiers who try to commit suicide. There is currently an epidemic of soldier suicides, some but not all of whom have suffered brain injuries in combat.
Where Insider Traders Roam: The Pharmaceutical Sector
When the government gets so involved in an economic sector that it can literally make or break companies by decree, corruption always follows.
Obama and the Big Drug Companies at Odds? New Emails Say “No Way.”
Some of the best reporting on crony capitalism being done right now is by Tim Carney at the Washington Examiner. The attached story is another great one.
During the Obamacare battle much was made of Obama’s effort at reining in the insurance and drug industries, for the sake of the “American people.”
Of course “health care reform” came out to benefit of both industries, throwing up a nice government mandated firewall around much of both industries. But the emails in Carney’s piece give insight into how all this went down. Big Pharma and Obama it turns out were downright cuddly leading up to the most divisive piece of legislation in a generation.
