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Drew Armstrong Bloomberg 5/31/2012 Drugmakers led by Pfizer (PFE) Inc. agreed to run a “very significant public campaign” bankrolling political support for the 2010 health-care law, including TV ads, while the Obama administration promised to block provisions opposed by drugmakers, documents released by Republicans show. The internal memos and e-mails for the first time unveil […] May 31st, 2012 | Tags: Bryant Hall, crony capitalism, Jeffrey Kindler, pay for play, Pfizer, pharmaceutical drug deals, Pharmaceutical industry, PhRMA, Rep. Joe Pitts | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, corruption, Health Care, Lobbying | Comments are closed
I cannot help but see the similarities between this case and the Solyndra scandal, since both involve rewarding companies tied to Obama donors, billions in taxpayer dollars, and insider dealing. Michelle Malkin 1/27/2012 Back in November, I spotlighted Obama’s half-billion-dollar crony drug deal involving a no-bid contract with politically-connected SIGA. Refresher course here. […] January 29th, 2012 | Tags: Andy Stern, Chimerix, crony capitalism, MacAndrews and Forbes, Nicole Lurie, pharmaceutical drug deals, Rep. Renee Ellmers, Ronald O. Perelman, SEIU, Sen. Claire McCaskill, SIGA Technologies, smallpox, vaccines | Category: Barack Obama, corruption, Department of Health and Human Services, Lobbying, North Carolina, Taxes, Unions | Comments are closed
David A. Bego Big Government 12/16/2011 The SEIU’s Insidious Tentacles continue to infiltrate government and politics at the expense of its own rank and file without attracting national media attention. Interestingly enough the mainstream media will not peek beneath the covers and investigate reports by employees and employers, such as those detailed in The Devil […] December 16th, 2011 | Tags: "Mariam the Mighty", "Occupy Sacramento", Andy Stern, Card Check, child care workers, Craig Becker, crony capitalism, David Asman, Employer Free Choice Act (EFCA), Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Mariam Noujaim, Medicaid, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), pharmaceutical drug deals, Right to Work, SEIU, smallpox | Category: Barack Obama, California, Communism, Connecticut, Economy, Illinois, Michigan, Unions | Comments are closed
A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist. David Willman Los Angeles Times 11/13/2011 Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is […] November 13th, 2011 | Tags: Andy Stern, anthrax, biodefense, campaign contributions, Chimerix, crony capitalism, Democrats, Dr. Eric A. Rose, Dr. Nicole Lurie, Kathleen Sebelius, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., Michael A. Balady, pharmaceutical drug deals, PharmAthene, Ronald O. Perelman, SEIU, SIGA Technologies, smallpox, ST-246, U.S. National Biodefense Science Board, vaccines, ViroPharma Inc. | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Ethics, Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, Taxes, Unions | Comments are closed
Duff Wilson The New York Times 3/31/2010 Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker, said Wednesday that it paid about $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf in the last six months of 2009, its first public accounting of payments to the people who decide which drugs […] April 2nd, 2010 | Tags: conflict of interest, New England Journal of Medicine, Pfizer, pharmaceutical drug deals | Category: insurance, Medicine | Comments are closed
EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s backroom deal So much for transparency in government health care By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Friday, August 14, 2009 President Obama promised that all health care negotiations would be public. Over the course of a year, at campaign appearances, on national TV shows and to newspaper editorial boards, he said that he wanted to […] August 16th, 2009 | Tags: C-SPAN, campaign promises, pharmaceutical drug deals | Category: Ethics, Health Care | Comments are closed
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