A diverse group of leaders joined together in the Massachusetts State House today to deliver one message to the state’s delegation: National health care reform is anything but a raw deal for Massachusetts. The 16 speakers representing faith groups, advoca

In his health care reform proposal to Congress and the nation revealed today, President Obama has included requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies to disclose payments to health care providers and hospitals. These 'Sunshine provisions

More Summit Surprises After surprising the political establishment by announcing a bipartisan health reform summit, the Obama administration continued to shape the debate with another surprise announcement late last week: In the summit invite, the adminis

In her testimony before the House Energy and Commerce committee on health appropriations, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called for $101 million of FDA's 2011 budget request to be used for a “medical product safety initiative” to increase inspections and

As we’ve said here before, the Senate special election in Massachusetts was a lot of things. One can probably find a hundred different explanations for why Scott Brown won in a hundred different bars on a given five o’clock (though we’re not advocating th

While we were encouraging folks to write letters to local newspapers, telling stories about what health care reform means for people they know, we realized each of us here knows someone who would be helped by health reform passing.  Who reminds us that wo

As Cephalon joins the ranks of pharmas disclosing payments to physicians or health care entities under corporate integrity agreements, John Mack at the Pharma Marketing Blog and Eric Milgram over at Pharma Conduct have good posts on the importance of the

Yesterday, in a surprise move to many (though apparently not to Majority Leader Reid or Speaker Pelosi, who immediately issued statements of support) President Obama invited Congressional leaders from both parties to a televised half-day health care refor

“Health reform is on life support unfortunately”—Sen. Mary Landrieu “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”—Gertrude in Hamlet “Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated”—Mark Twain A lot of ink has been spilled over repeated pronouncements of those