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Showing posts with label regulatory capture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regulatory capture. Show all posts
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 ...
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...
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...
