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		<title>Congress and lobbyists working together to stifle debate on healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 12:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stars do seem aligned for much needed change in the US healthcare system. But the organizations with a vested interest in the status quo, their lavishly funded lobbyists, and their tame Congressmen are going to do their damndest to make sure it does not happen.
The Boston Globe has an interesting article today: Held hostage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crooked Lawyers&#8230; And a Judge</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/justice/crooked-lawyers-and-a-judge</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fascinating article on the front page of today&#8217;s New York Times (24 March 2007): Fraud Inquiry Looks at Lawyers in Diet-Drug Case. In what experts are describing as one of the biggest and most brazen frauds in legal history, the lawyers who settled the fenphen diet-drug lawsuit on behalf of 440 clients for $200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More sleaze at the Department of the Interior</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to decide which Federal agency is the most corrupt these days but Interior is certainly in the running for that prize.
Today&#8217;s New York Times (24 March 2007) has a front page article Ex-Interior Aide is Guilty of Lying in Lobbying Case. The second highest official in the Dept. of Interior, J. Steven Griles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA &#8211; another example of &#8220;soft corruption&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how does the Food and Drug Administration decide what drugs or devices to approve for use by the public?
These decisions are made by FDA Advisory Committees made up of experts in the field.
Today&#8217;s New York Times (22 March, 2007) has an article F.D.A. Rule Limits Role of Advisors Tied to Industry which says that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 hours&#8230; And then back to &#8220;Sleaze as Usual&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s 100 hour blitzkrieg to return Capitol Hill to a higher ethical standard.  Not only is she weakening her message by demanding that the Pentagon fly her around in a personal 757&#8230; But it is already evident that her new rules designed to curb the influence of lobbyists is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the citizens of Massachusetts (and, indeed, the State Legislature) are waking up to just what a mess this so-called universal healthcare initiative actually is.
The front page of the Boston Globe (January 27, 2007) has an article talking about the bloated salaries being paid to the administers of this quasi-state agency (the official name is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Pills, Lobbyists, and Meth Addiction&#8230; Time for a class action lawsuit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a very interesting program on PBS FrontLine the other night about the growing epidemic of addiction to meth-amphetamines. You can find out more at the The METH EPIDEMIC page on the pbs.org website.
The program describes how the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) attempted to head off the problem of meth-amphetamine addiction 20 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a lasso round Big Pharma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US healthcare system is a shambles (e.g. 44 million uninsured, the highest per-capita spending in the world but health statistics among the worst outside the Third World, etc.) but one of the bigger problems is the sky-rocketing costs of prescriptions drugs.
One of the current battles going on in the newly Democratic Congress is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Coverage&#8230; Or Universal Rip-off?</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/government/universal-coverage-or-universal-rip-off</link>
		<comments>http://2centsworth.info/government/universal-coverage-or-universal-rip-off#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s (January 20, 2007) Boston Globe there is an article entitled Sticker shock for state care plan talking about the new Massachusetts state-mandated health plan&#8230;
State-mandated, to be clear, means that all citizens are going to be required to have state-approved health coverage. If you cannot show that you have state-approved coverage then you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey GW&#8230; Time to pony up.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it is high time for our friends at the highest reaches of government to &#8220;share in the sacrifice.&#8221;
George, Dick, Don, and Condaleeza got us into this mess.
Thousands of soldiers and marines are on their third or fourth tour of duty in Iraq, more than three thousand have made the ultimate sacrifice, around twenty [...]]]></description>
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