Senator Max Baucus – Health Ins & Pharma’s Whore

Not only is Healthcare Reform going to be more of the same, it will likely get worse if Senator Max Baucus has his way.   He seems to have the authority to push forward ignoring  the majority outcry of health professionals and citizens…

Senator Baucus also raised the idea of taxing health benefits at the May 12th Senate Finance Committee Round Table. In response, Gerald Shea, Assistant for Government Affairs to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, deemed Baucus’ proposal to tax health benefits a “radical change” and said, “If we’re going to do a radical change, I think that single payer is really the way to go.”

While Senator Baucus continues to say, without offering any evidence whatsoever, that single payer is “(not) going to work in this country”.   Do you need to ask why?  Senator Max Baucus really represents the powerful and wealthy health insurance and pharma industries.

The Senators Career Campaign Contributions:

From the insurance industry: $1,170,313.
From the health professionals: $1,016,276.
From the pharmaceuticals/health-products industry: $734,605.
From the hospitals/nursing homes: $541,891.
From the health services/HMOs: $439,700.

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Fake Merck Journal Printed by Elsevier
Pharmaceutical giant Merck paid science publisher Elsevier to put out a fake peer-reviewed scientific journal called Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine.  Elsevier is also the publisher of Health News Daily, The Gray Sheet (coverage of the medical device industry), The Pink Sheet (coverage of the prescription drug industry) and The Green Sheet (a publication for pharmacists)m which raises the question:  What did Elsevier know, and when did it know it? //  more

 

Forest Reserves $170 Million
Forest Laboratories has set aside $170 million to settle a False Claims Act case related to the kickbacks paid to doctors for off-label prescription of the antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro to children as well as the off-label marketing of Levothroid. Forest notes that “there can be no assurance that the amount reserved by the Company will be sufficient and that a larger material amount will not be required.”  // more

 

 

WellCare to Pay $80 Million
WellCare Health Plans has agreed to pay $80 million to settle charges the company inflated Medicaid charges in Florida.  The settlement only applies only to Florida, and does not settle any other state or federal investigations of WellCare.   //  more

 

 

 

Be an informed consumer!  Don’t believe for one minute that the Pharma industry has your best interest in mind…   Making you well does not generate profits.  Visit the Taxpayers Against Fraud web site (taf.org) to see just how many of the companies that you thought, you could trust with your health, that are committing fraud.  They are fined enormous dollars that get passed back to you, the consumer!

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