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The California Senate has passed a bill banning pharmaceutical companies from giving gifts to doctors. California doctors accepted $1.4 billion in gifts from the industry in 2014, the bill's sponsor says.
The legislation, Senate Bill 790, targets a common practice in the US that critics believe results in doctors ignoring generic drugs in favor of more high-dollar medications that drive up health care costs.
The bill would specifically restrict companies from offering travel, consulting fees and other gifts to medical professionals.
RT: California Senate votes to limit gifts to doctors from pharma companies
Naturally, this is merely a goodwill gesture from Big Pharma because they love you ... or at least doctors.
Or ...
A Harvard Medical School study released last year found that Massachusetts doctors prescribed more name-brand cholesterol drugs in correlation with more gifts they received from pharma companies.
- RT
Of course that's not all doctors but fifty states means fifty billion dollars in graft to find the dirty ones.
The next step is to get those vile Big Pharma commercials banned from television. Few things so epitomize the failure of commercial medicine both in design and delivery.
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