Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America(PhRMA) pays for pro-health reform TV ad: spent $20 million lobbying congress
AstraZeneca earned over 4$billion dollars in 2008 from Seroquel, the anti psychotic in lawsuits for alleged diabetes injuries, and the latest add-on for "depression". Placebo outperformed Seroquel in a teen bipolar study and has a black box warning for diabetes as a side effect, also known for adding unwanted weight gain. The internal documents show that AstraZeneca knew of the risks before the drug went to market.
Health reform and PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America)
David Brennan Elected PhRMA Board Chairman
Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2009) — David Brennan, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca, was elected board chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) today at the trade association’s annual meeting (view his speech).
Also elected were Pfizer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey B. Kindler as chairman-elect of the PhRMA Board of Directors and David Y. Norton, Company Group Chairman, Worldwide Commercial and Operations for the Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals Group, as board treasurer.
“The PhRMA member companies accomplished much this past year. We strengthened our marketing code, tightened our DTC advertising principles and voiced strong support of transparency of company interactions with physicians,” said Clark. “I am also proud of PhRMA’s commitment in support of health care reform, including expanding coverage to all Americans. In this time of economic turmoil, the last thing American families should have to worry about is their health care coverage. No one should have to go without the medicines and vaccines they need.”
Mr. Brennan was named chief executive officer of AstraZeneca in January 2006. From 2001 through 2005 he was president and chief executive officer of AstraZeneca LP, the company’s North America subsidiary. In 2005, Mr. Brennan was appointed executive board director of AstraZeneca, with responsibility for all North American operations."
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Friday, June 26, 2009,$1.2 million a day: Pharma lobbying Congress, using ex-Congressmen and Senators-soulful sepulcher blog
Open Secrets blog: Will $1.2 Million a Day Convince Congress to Buy Big Pharma's Rx for Change?
"Within this industry, the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) leads the way on lobbying activities, spending more than $20.2 million last year, or $10,750 an hour that Congress was in session."
PhRMA paid for this television ad, supporting health reform.
This airing of the TV ad brought to you, by John Mack, author of the Pharma Marketing blog.
Feel like a pawn on a political platform masked as health reform? or a marketing target for PhRMA? you're right! it's all about profit$$, not you!
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None of this surprises me if our politicians changed I'd be fascinated at what better deal they cut for themselves and what it was.
Dorothy from frammology
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California, by one account, is $69 Billion in Debt from its Special Interest Protecting Legislators.
Part of California's recent Budget Deal to Stave off State Bankruptcy includes Fingerprinting the elderly & infirm who receive in home services (& their caregivers too) as a stop against fraud.
Anyone who reads Here, already Knows who Owns the Health Care System that brought California to this Draconian pass, ...... which requires Elderly home bound Invalids to be FINGERPRINTED to control a State wide Epidemic of Fraud.
And right now Congress wants to give those very same entities Another $Trillion Dollars in order to bring the Same kind of Health Care, & Fraud, to the other 49 States. The Operative principle remains:
If you Buy More of Something, you will get More of it. You will Not get something Different. You will get More of Exactly the Same.
Congress has been throwing $Billion Dollar band aids onto Health Care for decades, and California reveals the Next Step for all America, unless this Same, Govt/Industry funded/owned Universal Single Payer Fraud Farm is foreclosed on by the Voters.
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