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- airwalkery2k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15" An Associated Press review of records in Minnesota found that a doctor and a pharmacist on the eight-member state panel simultaneously got big checks - more than $350,000 to one - from pharmaceutical companies for speaking about their products.
The two members said the money did not influence their work on the panel, and the lack of recorded votes in meeting minutes makes it difficult to track any link between the payments and policy. "
$350,000 doesn't affect somebody's voting? Maybe it's just me, but if somebody gives me even a $20 bill, I dunno, I tend to kinda like that guy. - Akaji, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Whoa, Minnesota news on Digg four times in one month. We're starting to feel special..
- wishninja, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The people in this article are prime examples of the kind of people that should be in jail. These speaking engagment fees that these guys are getting remind me of the ones that politicians get. Its all a crooked scam aimed at greasing the hands of the speakers they hire.
- manicallday, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4That's a horrible idea. I agree that the FDA is worthless but there still needs to be oversight. I personally think we just need to adopt the European standards.
- Bajeda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3And I just realized.... "bad for the economy"???? Are you kidding me? How about the safety and welfare of every single American the pharmaceutical companies are trying to market drugs to, which is literally every single American.
- weebit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Picture this...
Friend goes to the doctor, and doctor gives the friend a prescription. Friend (also neighbor) needs a ride to the drug store, so off we go. The cost is 279 bucks for a 30 days supply just taking the drug twice a day. So friend asked why it was so high, and druggist says its a new drug. I ask if she can get a Generic, so druggist calls the doc because generic is not check marked on the prescription. Druggist comes back and said "The doctor said no she has to get that drug." I asked why, and the druggist said "It beats me, because cheaper drugs are out there one only cost 16 bucks a month." Soooo what happened next is priceless. My friend called her own doctor that time on her cell phone, and told him she was at the pharmacy and wanted a reason for not offering the generic because her money is tight, and she was trying to raise money to get her car fixed. Well her doc said take what I give you, so she said back... "Thats fine doc, I will take what is given to me, get my records together because tomorrow I am transferring to another doctor. She told me after we left the drugstore that she suspected he was that way cause his office was loaded with those new drug posters, and because of several other prescriptions she had to get filled, but she said she didn't think he would stoop so low not to even offer her something else, when it was clear their were several other drugs available, and cheaper. She needed help too keep cost down. She didn't get the prescription. It's amazing, but yes doctors get paid too for pushing the new drugs.
Anything that Minnesota does to clean up has to be a blessing. It doesn't stop at the druggist, or at the doctors, it's everyone out to make a buck off of the public from the pharmaceutical companies. The contempt of hiding what you are doing knowing good and well that your not out to help the public, you are out to help yourselves at the consumers expense. This is a blatant fraud, and neglect on the public not caring if they have to go without, and who knows if anyone has died just because they could not afford their prescriptions because the doctor wanted to push the new drugs, and would not offer them the opportunity to get a cheaper drug. - Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's a typo. It actually means Kansas....
- Bajeda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Or not. How bout we get as much transparency as possible when it comes to the Pharmaceutical industry, the most powerful and well connected industry in the US.
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Doesn't mean it's still not irrelevant. If Drug Co. A pays me money and the vote is whether or not to allow Drug Co. B to be used, I can vote in a way favorable to Drug Co. A, even though A wasn't the subject of the vote.
- CatalystGhost, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I guess people are finally looking up here and saying "*****, there's more to that state than just fishing?!"
- g00dETH3R, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1In neo America bribery is legal.
(We just call it campaign donations or speaking engagement fees) - dewyjuhl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1oh.....thats cool.
I LIVE THERE! - smotpoker1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0That Doctor is a liar! Put him on the stand in COURT and after you find his lying ass guilty fire him and put him in jail.As far as the pharma corp. Fine the F*** out of their sorry greedy asses.Make their product become GENERIC immediately.Bet that will scare the sh** out of the pharma corps.
- bbq2007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Makes you wonder if you should really go out and want to try some new legal drugs. Maybe, it isn't worthwhile to waste money on something that you got by without before.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Anyone notice MOST ADS ON FOX NAZI NEWS ARE DRUG ADS...
turning your Doctors into drug dealers? - phillymozart, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0When will people learn that the reason businesses bribe people is because we give those same people the power to dish out the candy. According to the article, 28 billion candies to be exact. Show me a person who never kissed his bosses ass for a promotion and I will show you that same guy in 10 years time making the same salary (which is going to be less due to inflation). The MN advisory panel has enormous power and influence to make some people VERY rich. Someone tell me what exactly is the right way to pick the winners and losers in the marketplace?
- Frezzle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1yes i do feel special, or at least my thats what my mom says.
- burnswhenipee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0 Julie Keaton: Plomox is the most effective antiarrhythmic drug on the market right now, and it has minimal side effects--only nausea, impotence, and anal leakage.
Dr. Cox: [smiling] I'm gettin' two out of three just from the conversation! - nedzeve, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2This is going to be bad for the economy. Let the free market decide health care.
- catalysis, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1What if the company's product was not the subject of the vote?
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