Slog - Comments on Drug Loopholes http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/drug_loopholes The pharmaceutical industry is pretty damn powerful in Olympia. Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-36, Seattle) had a solid bill this past session that would have set up an on-line database for health care consumers showing what gifts pharmaceutical companies had given to what healthcare providers. The intent was to let patients know that their docs' recommendations may not be objective and also to embarrass drug companies out of such crass behavior. The bill disappeared. Well, how sweet of drug company GlaxoSmithKline. They sent Sen. Kohl-Welles an e-mail yesterday letting her know that a "compromise" could be worked out—and they alerted her... Copyright 2008 Wed, 02 May 2007 09:06:17 -0800 Sat, 12 May 2007 17:13:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Garrett You won't know the half of it Josh, unless you worked in Big Pharma, like I did for 6 years.

]]> Garrett http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/drug_loopholes#c706125 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/drug_loopholes#c706125 News Wed, 02 May 2007 09:21:19 -0800 Comment by Tiz To answer your question: Yes.

and all I did to learn this was deliver their food to them during these sales.

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]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/drug_loopholes#c706168 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/drug_loopholes#c706168 News Wed, 02 May 2007 10:29:41 -0800 Comment by Sean If must give gifts, why not just give each doctors a few crates worth of their damn drugs, so they can pass them on to their financially strapped patients.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/drug_loopholes#c706235 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/drug_loopholes#c706235 News Wed, 02 May 2007 12:24:52 -0800 Comment by john Nevertheless, my dad used to get box seats to mariner's games from them on demand (literally, hmm you wanna go to this one? picks up the phone. so totally ridiculous shit like that would at least get stopped.

Anyway the Pharma industry is about as honest as the Tobacco industry; it's pretty silly to even discuss them as though their points like R&D were actually valid.

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