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A TEST OF POLITICAL WILL by John McDonough
http://www.wbur.org/ weblogs/ commonhealth/ ?p=462
It’s a health policy truism: one person’s waste is another person’s paycheck. And it’s vividly playing out in the debate over proposed ban on drug and device maker gifts to physicians in Senate President Therese Murray’s cost control legislation. It’s not just the lobbyists and the drug reps (we estimate 2,000 to 3,000 just in Massachusetts), it’s the pharmaceutical “bling” makers and distributors, it’s the caterers, it’s friends and relatives of the above. A veritable industry devoted to the subtle and not-so-subtle seduction of physicians. All of them contacting their legislators to oppose the ban.
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