Someone's finally going after Big Pharma...and about damn time

[thatcrazycajun]

BusinessWeek Online reports here that New Jersey's Attorney General Anne Milgram is making her state the first in the nation to investigate all the $$$ that giant pharmaceutical companies lavish on doctors in hopes of influencing their prescription choices. You go, girl! It's past time someone hauled back on the leash against the Pfizers and GlaxoSmithKlines of the world trying to make brand loyalty more important than effectiveness, safety and reasonable cost in medical treatment. Now if only someone would pass a law making them cut back on all those TV and radio ads aimed at patients...

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[redaxe.livejournal.com]

It makes sense that this would happen in New Jersey, home of several large pharmaceutical corporations (J&J comes to mind first, but I know, from work, that at least three or four other really large ones are headquartered there). It's not universal health coverage, but it's a start toward breaking the rackets.

[kayshapero]

Yessssss.....