Slog - Comments on Senators on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money I'm a fan of public-disclosure laws. This morning, for example, public-disclosure laws allowed me to learn that just about every pharmaceutical company on the planet—GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Schering-Plough, Eli Lilly, Novartis, and Merck—contributed big money to state Senator Cheryl Pflug (R-5, Maple Valley) during her 2004 campaign. (At the bottom of this post I list the contributions I found.) I looked this up because earlier this morning, in the senate health-care committee hearing, Senator Pflug was openly antagonistic and dismissive to Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles’s (D-36, Seattle) no-brainer bill mandating that pharmaceutical companies publicly disclose any gifts made to health-care providers. Meanwhile,... Copyright 2008 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:27:38 -0800 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:10:12 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by switzerblog Pflug is, to be polite, not the sharpest tack in the box, and that's saying something. She shares constituents with Glen Anderson from the House, who may be even duller.

As far as ethics in her case: Feh! I've never known her to display ethics nor scruples.

]]> switzerblog http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645023 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645023 News Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:53:41 -0800 Comment by MHD Josh,

You should ask Sen. Pflug why it is that drug companies purchase all these gifts, if they don't affect prescriptions.

If that's the case, investors in drug companies should get together a giant class-action lawsuit for the frivolous waste of their money on gifts for doctors.

Perhaps the government should recover some of their expenditures, since they're ultimately reflected in higher drug prices?

]]> MHD http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645038 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645038 News Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:16:03 -0800 Comment by phenics The only "negative add" would be to Pflug re-election campaign chest...

]]> phenics http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645090 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645090 News Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:54:09 -0800 Comment by Willis @1 - it's spelled Glenn Anderson.

Hugs,

-Willis

]]> Willis http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645105 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645105 News Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:05:34 -0800 Comment by nice work thanks for exposing that--it's amazing how pathetic our elected officials can be.

]]> nice work http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645232 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/drug_money#c645232 News Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:39:01 -0800 Comment by Dino Dude, you missed your chance to note that Gombo is a former D House member (from Spokane area ) who now lobbies for PHARMA. Given the Democrats' emphasis on health care and its rising costs, you might have wondered aloud why he has this client now instead of working on behalf of constituents or of higher education, his previous jobs. Ask around the campus. His moral compass has been de-magnetized before.

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