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...pharmaceutical and insurance companies, hired a total of seven former Baucus aides to lobby him, including at least two of his former chiefs of staff. In total, the Washington Post counted at least 51 former staffers connected to the Finance Committee working as health care lobbyists. It is one thing for the committee’s members to take the industry’s money and vote against them. It is another for them to talk to close friends and colleagues and proceed to reject them...
...whole thing is going to send a chill," says Dr. Drew Pinsky, a substance-abuse expert and television personality who treats many celebrities, "but it's a highly complicated and nuanced problem that many people just don't understand. You know, there's a young celebrity dying of addiction every day now. And they're all dying from pharmaceutical death. So where are they getting them? They're getting them from my peers...
...with drugs or alcohol, or it has turned into a drug or alcohol problem, then I'd be much more likely to refer them than to manage them in my office. It's going to make people much more cautious about the potential risks, and that's a good thing. People shouldn't get worse care just because they're famous. That's clearly the concern here. By virtue of his incredible wealth and celebrity, [Jackson] actually got worse treatment...
...acting with total disregard for their patients' health, Pinsky says, most doctors who get into trouble with celebrity clients mean well but are in over their heads. "It's not as simple as it seems, and it needs to change. If you want to distill it down to one thing, it's doctors really don't understand addiction, and that's how they get themselves into trouble. And then they also don't understand their relationship with celebrity and their own personality figuring into that relationship...
...There are lots of conflicting answers to that question, from partisan rancor to internal Democratic politics to Reid's own electoral weakness. But the one thing everyone agrees upon is that Reid's announcement could have been handled better - so that the primary message coming out of the whiplash moves wasn't that Democrats are at odds with one another. "Maybe there should've been a better job reaching out to the White House," concedes Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. Manley says Reid decided to pull the bill when he couldn't get an agreement from the Republican...