Dear Friends,
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest is pleased to announce the release of two new interviews with Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI).
U.S. Representative Jack Kingston has served Georgia's 1st District for the past 14 years and is now in his eighth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Kingston is one of the more powerful voices in Congress for free-market solutions to problems. He is often a guest on network television shows such as Fox News, MSNBC, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report and Real Time with Bill Maher. In our interview with Congressman Kingston we discuss his work on expanding Health Savings Accounts, the negative impact of state health insurance mandates, and the reasons why government-run healthcare is not the answer.
View interview with Congressman Kingston:
http://www.biggovhealth.org/testimonials/policymakers/jack-kingston/
U.S. Representative Mike Rogers sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee and serves on the subcommittee on health. Congressman Rogers is a strong advocate of Health Savings Accounts and free-market healthcare. In our interview with Congressman Rogers, we discuss physician reimbursement rates under Medicare, Senator McCain’s healthcare proposal, and the future of American healthcare.
View interview with Congressman Rogers:
http://www.biggovhealth.org/testimonials/policymakers/congressman-mike-rogers/
CMPI also recently interviewed Grace-Marie Turner, President of the Galen Institute.
Grace-Marie Turner founded the Galen Institute in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. She has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform that transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients. She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, consumer-driven marketplace in the health sector.
In our interview with Grace-Marie Turner, she explains the dangers and implications of prescription drug importation. Turner also discusses the debate over socialized health care, the impact of an informed health care consumer, and Sen. John McCain's health care proposal.
View Grace-Marie Turner’s interview:
http://www.biggovhealth.org/testimonials/policymakers/grace-marie-turner/
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
CMPI NEWS
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Advertising Rules Stifle Free Market For Prescriptions
By Peter Pitts
The Scotsman
August 26, 2008
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DRUGWONKS BLOG
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The Palin Health Care Record: Results You Can Count On
By Robert Goldberg
September 3, 2008
I will write more about Sarah Palin later, particularly contrasting her decision to have her child Trig while Barack Obama was voting against a bill that made it illegal to deny medical treatment to babies that survived abortions and ghouls like the despicable Howard Brody who root for both aborting and withholding life sustaining care for infants with Down's Syndrome...
http://www.drugwonks.com/blog_post/show/6315
What Depression, Measles and Sir Isaac Newton Have In Common
By Tim Franson, M.D.
September 2, 2008
On the surface, the disease states of depression and measles could not be more dissimilar. Measles, a viral infection usually afflicting children at an early age, is typically an acute, self- limited disorder with a striking skin rash easily recognized by trained health professionals, and effectively prevented by insidious conditions with periodic worsening which impact all ages (though most frequent in adult females) which have no visible signs on physical examination and are not amenable to primary prevention.
What these two medical entities share are the risk of serious complications if not properly managed - and their plight in the health policy arena as byproducts of the "law of unintended consequences".
http://www.drugwonks.com/blog_post/show/6309
The Pied Piper Effect
By Peter Pitts
September 2, 2008
A new study out of Harvard debunks the canard that DTC advertising causes a “Pied Piper” effect of patients marching en masse to their physicians demanding drugs they don’t need.
Reuters reports that, “Expensive advertising of prescription drugs directly to consumers may do little to encourage sales, U.S. and Canadian researchers reported on Monday.”
According to the report, even though companies spent an estimated $3 billion in 2005 on such ads in the United States, they did not appear to result in more prescriptions.
http://www.drugwonks.com/blog_post/show/6308
NEW CMPI SENIOR FELLOWS
This week CMPI gained two new senior fellows: Timothy R. Franson, M.D. and Gary E. Applebaum, M.D.
Read the press release here:
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INTERNATIONAL ARTICLE OF NOTE
She Supported The NHS – Then It Let Her Down
The Independent
August 2008
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ARTICLE OF NOTE
Doctors Vindicated
By John Goodman
August 29, 2008
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