By Gabe Bullard
Filed Monday, August 27, 2007 at 4:32 PM
Senator Claire McCaskill wants to make drug companies' contributions to doctors public. McCaskill said today that she will introduce a bill next month requiring drug companies to list all gifts, promotional items, money and drug samples given to doctors online.
The information would be listed on a national drug registry website. Patients could use this website to find out if their doctor has received gifts from drug manufacturers.
McCaskill says gifts can lead to preferential prescriptions from doctors, and she hopes the drug registry website will cut down on this practice.
McCaskill made the announcement today at a meeting with St. Louis members of the American Medical Student Association at Washington University.
The information would be listed on a national drug registry website. Patients could use this website to find out if their doctor has received gifts from drug manufacturers.
McCaskill says gifts can lead to preferential prescriptions from doctors, and she hopes the drug registry website will cut down on this practice.
McCaskill made the announcement today at a meeting with St. Louis members of the American Medical Student Association at Washington University.
Labels: Claire_McCaskill, Health, McCaskill, U.S._Senate
3 Comments:
Who is going to pay for it?
I think I know the answer, the pharmaceutical companies. So nothing will change or the transactions will be falsified.
Who is going to regulate the falsified records?
The people paid by the pharmaceutical companies.
What is going to change if this bill even gets passed?
Nothing.
Is this worthy of a press conference as a United States Senator?
Hell no.
Will Senator Claire McCaskill be re-elected if she keeps holding press conferences to announce proposed bills of this caliber?
Hell no!
Senator Claire McCaskill should keep staying quiet, until she has something real to present to the public. If not, you will be viewed on the same level as another entrenched Congressional Democratic legislator that may face a tough time getting re-elected in the future!
8/28/2007 1:46 AM
I wonder which congressional Democrat anonymous is referring to. All four Missouri Democrats (actually all 9 congresspeople from both parties) are politically safe. So is Metro-East Democrat Jerry Costello. (Missouri Districts 4 (Skelton) and 9 (Hulshof) will be in play when the incumbents step down voluntarily, but not before.)
I also disagree with just about everything else that poster said. While McCaskill has generally been a big disappointment so far, this particular idea makes good sense.
8/28/2007 3:08 PM
Sorry...but it does not make sense
for Claire to pick another professional group to bagger because she can not find anything better to propose for a bill. She
needs to do some good research with the people that elected her to give herself some better ideas and brainstorm those issues.
8/29/2007 7:24 AM
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