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Mickey Kaus Kaus Files The Daily Caller 6/25/2012 The left-leaning press should be all over this, no? Evil Big Drug Companies (PhRMA) funnel money to David Axelrod’s old ad firm (which is still paying him for his share) even as they are negotiating with the Obama administration? Hello? Josh Marshall? Arianna? You there? Someone explain […] June 28th, 2012 | Tags: AKPD Message and Media, crony capitalism, David Axelrod, PhRMA, scandal | Category: Barack Obama, corruption, Ethics, Health Care, Media accountability, Politics, Progressives | Comments are closed
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
Timothy P. Carney Washington Examiner 7/7/10 My column today discusses how hard the drug lobby is working to re-elect Harry Reid. I had attributed the industry’s love Reid simply to how Pharma-friendly the bill was. At Firedoglake, though, Jane Hamsher gives some more details: How did Reid personally step up? Well, most notably he helpfully […] July 7th, 2010 | Tags: PhRMA, Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Kay Hagan | Category: Congress, corruption, Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care, legislation, lobbyists, Nevada | Comments are closed
Obama Watch News 25 May 2010 Today Kathleen Sebelius asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare. The suit was filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and will soon be joined by a separate suit brought by twenty other states — but notably, no health care corporations are among […] May 28th, 2010 | Tags: AARP, American Medical Association, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Kathleen Sebelius, PhRMA, Virginia v. Sebelius | Category: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care, insurance, US Constitution, Virginia | Comments are closed
By Molly K. Hooper The Hill 12/16/09 A House Republican congressman is pushing the Obama administration to reveal the specifics of deals it struck with various groups on healthcare reform. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) wants the House to require the White House to hand over documents related to compromises reached earlier this year with the […] December 17th, 2009 | Tags: PhRMA, Rep. Henry Waxman, Rep. Michael Burgess MD | Category: Barack Obama, Health Care, Lobbying | Comments are closed
By Brian Faughnan TheConservatives.com Aug. 18, 2009 Would a Republican president get away with this type of questionable dealing? The White House has cut a deal with those evil drug makers – the ones who have been charging an arm and a leg for their products, and fighting ‘sensible’ reforms, and generally been very […] August 18th, 2009 | Tags: AKPD Media, David Axelrod, PhRMA | Category: Ethics, Health Care | Comments are closed
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