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The misled consumers - courtesy of big pharma
I wish to say a big "thank you" to Johnson & Johnson and their marketing departments for misleading so many patients and nursing homes on three of their drugs. For their efforts, they will pay $2.2 billion in fines."The settlement involves the schizophrenia drugs Risperdal and Invega, and the heart failure drug Natrecor, the company and Attorney General Eric Holder said.  Johnson & Johnson and two subsidiaries "lined their pockets at the expense of American taxpayers, patients and the private insurance industry," Holder said." You think they would have learned from their $1.2 billion in fines in 2011. Oh but t...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 5, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: insurance costs medication pharmaceutical manufacturers scammers Source Type: blogs

The Latest Obamacare Case on Appeal
Ilya Shapiro and Timothy Sandefur Last year’s Supreme Court decision holding that Obamacare imposes a “tax” on people who don’t buy health insurance came as a surprise to most Americans. The law doesn’t call it a “tax,” but a “penalty,” and the law’s authors and supporters never called it a “tax” when it was enacted. But Chief Justice Roberts and the four liberal justices held that unlike the penalty in the 1922 case of Bailey v. Drexel Furniture – which was disguised as a tax – what the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act imposed looked like a penalty but was really a tax. One o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Timothy Sandefur Source Type: blogs

Hey brother, can you spare a dime?
There was a green piece of paper stapled to my pay stub. Never a good sign. Well, I thought, at least it isn’t pink. Yes, my job was safe—it was my health insurance that got laid off. The green note told me that the company’s health insurance, which has gone up by leaps and bounds over the last few years, was set to go up another whopping 25% next year, and my employer was throwing in the towel. They can’t stay in business and provide us health insurance. I was cast upon the Exchange.OK. I can do this. The first stop, recommended by my employer, was the Kaiser Family Foundation, where they have an online calculator...
Source: LifeAfterDx--The Guardian Chronicles - October 12, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Wil Source Type: blogs

Wow! I Could Have Bought Off Exchange
Chad Henderson lives in Flintstone, Georgia, is 21 years old, and actually bought an Obamacare plan on the exchange. Chad is a college student and part time day care worker, but made too much money to qualify for taxpayer paid subsidies. Without Obamacare, Henderson could have received health insurance for as little as $44.72 on eHealthInsurance.com, according to Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute. “I can’t yet say whether Chad’s $175 premium is the lowest-cost plan available to him through the Obamacare Exchange,” Cannon said. “[I’m in the process of researching that, and it’ll probably tak...
Source: InsureBlog - October 4, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs

Dan Morain: When Big Pharma comes to town, drug costs tend to rise
Any time huge pharmaceutical companies descend on the Capitol, it’s a safe bet that patients are going to be paying more for the drugs they need.That’s the likely result if Gov. Jerry Brown signs Senate Bill 598, legislation dealing with the most costly life-saving drugs that biopharmaceutics use to treat the serious diseases: cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV and the like.On its face, the bill by Sen. Jerry Hill, the San Mateo Democrat, is perfectly reasonable. It requires pharmacists to notify physicians if they substitute the biologic equivalent of generic drugs, known in the business as biosimilars.The notice is inte...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 30, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

GlaxoChinaGate contd. - David Preston, chairman and chief executive officer of Boehringer Ingelheim China speaks
Looking to find a cure in an ailing industryDavid Preston, chairman and chief executive officer of Boehringer Ingelheim China was recently honored with a Magnolia Silver Award under a program set up by the Shanghai government to recognize the contributions expatriates make to the city’s social and economic development.Preston took over the China business of German-based drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim four years ago.Since coming to China in 1992, he has also worked for French-based Sanofi-Aventis and Xian-Janssen, the US-headquartered pharmaceutical maker’s China joint venture.An anti-bribery investigation has spr...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 30, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Christopher A. Preble Today Cato released a new white paper, “The End of Overkill? Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy.” I am proud to have contributed to this effort with lead author Benjamin Friedman of Cato, and Matt Fay, a former Cato research assistant now enrolled in the History PhD program at Temple University. We argue that U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them. We estimate that a smaller arsenal deployed entire...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs

Shouldn’t Hip & Knee Replacements Come With Warranties?
(Great Beyond)Most new products, from cheapo wristwatches to new cars, often come with manufacturers’ warranties. But that isn’t the case for most hip and knee implants, meaning that a growing number of Americans are having expensive devices put in their bodies without any written assurance from the manufacturers.More than 4 million Americans currently have knee implants, and that number is expected to grow as life expectancy rates improve. In 2011 alone, there were 711,000 knee replacements performed. That same year, around 500,000 Americans received hip replacement implants. The combined annual demand for these two s...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 13, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Oh yeah, the conference
Since I had my Baselian adventure at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers, I suppose I owe y'all something in return. To remind you, I was there to attend the annual international meeting sponsored by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and the International Society of Exposure Science. The latter is not about exhibitionism but what happens to your body when you swallow, inhale or have contact with various chemicals, mostly, and some other stuff like really hot weather or obnoxious noise or whatever.So. On the one hand the environmental movement has had some great successes over the decades. They finally ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

The Long Con - "Charitable" Hospitals Make Multimillionaires out of Their CEOs
The CEOs of ostensibly charitable hospitals founded to serve the poor continue to become rich.   The latest reminders are in two articles from Maryland, from DelMarVaNow, and from the Baltimore Sun,.and one from the Boston Globe.All this diligent reporting showed multimillion dollar executive compensation,  as usual not justified by evidence or logic, but also how executive compensation is becoming divorced from the ostensible charitable mission of non-profit hospitals.   Most Hospital CEOs are Paid a LotSo jin Maryland, we found via DelMarVaNow,Peninsula Regional Medical Center paid its top executive and he...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: hospitals executive compensation deception perverse incentives mission-hostile management non-profit organizations hospital systems Source Type: blogs

Anti-Smoking Advocates Admit the Real Reason They Oppose Ban on Sale of Electronic Cigarettes to Minors: They Want Them Taxed Like Cigarettes
As anti-smoking groups' opposition to legislation that would have banned the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors in Rhode Island and Ohio has unfolded, it has become clear that their main concern is not protecting the health of children, but making sure that electronic cigarettes will be taxed at the same rate as cigarettes.Within two days, Rhode Island's governor and anti-smoking advocates in Ohio have admitted that their primary concern is not protecting the health of children, but protecting cigarette sales from competition from much healthier e-cigs, which presently enjoy the advantage of avoiding tobacco excise ta...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

Rhode Island Anti-Smoking Groups Lobbying Against Ban on Electronic Cigarette Sales to Minors
Normally, public health groups support policies that protect the public's health. But in today's Rest of the Story, I reveal that one public health coalition is pushing a policy that would harm children by potentially allowing them easy access to electronic cigarettes.A coalition of anti-smoking groups in Rhode Island, including the American Lung Association, American Cancer Society, and American Heart Association, is urging Governor Chafee to veto legislation passed by the Rhode Island House and Senate which would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors. According to an article in the Providence Journal:"Banning t...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

My Sonic Hedgehog
My dad loves a good deal. When he saw that an Alexandria Chevrolet dealership was offering $4,000 for any trade-in—four times the value of my 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier—he lit up and emailed me the offer. “Cash for clunkers is back!” I said. I gave my dad the green light to work his negotiating magic on my behalf for a new 2013 Sonic LTZ turbo. Apparently he is a wizard: Trade-in: $4,000 Random rebates: $1,000 Taxes, tags, fees and destination charge: $0 My parents letting me use their GM MasterCard rewards: $2,500 Estimated drive-away price without discounts: $22,500; my drive-away price: $15,000. I thought back...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - July 6, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Benjamin Rubenstein) Tags: living habits economics family Source Type: blogs

Please read: Tenancy Referencing forum and #disability hate crime. #ukmh #MentalHealth
Taken directly from the web forum operated  by Paul Routledge  Tags: benefitbabyscroungerpregnantuglylearning difficultiesrepulsivestupidcountryLandladystate handout benefitstax payerchildunborn childjail fodder Prisoncare system 14/12/2012 6:40 am Sharon Carmichael Member Forum Posts: 109 Member Since: 12/10/2011  Offline 1   Quote Yesterday, a rather repulsive looking woman came into my office with her two grown up daughters, all of whom were, how can I phrase this, short of a full load.  The woman was looking for a studio flat and during the viewing disclosed that she was in fact 45 and pregnant ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 2, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Back into hte soup
Here in the Eastern Mass area we're back into the soup, yet another hot HOT, steamy heat wave. It's too hot to think, let alone do anything as strenuous as typing. Speaking of typing one reason I hardly write much any more is I have developed a form of dyslexia over the past few years. The doctor said it might be due to side effects from medication or a complication of the degenerative neurological condition I have. It all started over 20 years ago after a spinal injury. It could also be due in part to medication side effects or damage done during surgery when I was under general anesthesia on 3 separate occasions. Whateve...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - June 24, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs