Pills of Eli Lilly & Co.'s antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, the company's top-selling drug with $4.7 billion in sales last year, are arranged for a photo at New London Pharmacy in New York on July 22, 2009. Photographer: JB Reed/Bloomberg News
It was January 2004, and the attorneys were negotiating in a conference room on the ninth floor of the federal courthouse in Boston, where Loucks was head of the health-care fraud unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. One of Pfizer’s units had been pushing doctors to prescribe an epilepsy drug called Neurontin for uses the Food and Drug Administration had never approved.
Some of you may think that nominating my own blog for the Bloggers Choice awards is a little cheesy, but MOST BLOGGERS nominate themselves or have a friend do it, and many of them post fake email addys and vote for themselves. I’m not going to fake the votes, but some honesty around this whole “blogging competition” might be in order. I have no doubt though that Dr. Amy’s vote as the WORST BLOGGER OF ALL TIME were not faked by her, and that’s why I love the competition…
218 needed for passage: At 9:04 Pm Colorado Time the vote is 212 yes and 207 no (8 minutes left to vote)
9:07 PM Colorado Time – 11:07 PM DC Time 218 Votes pass – House erupts in applause and cheers. I’m going to go throw up…I’d go get drunk if I wasn’t a Mormon.
UPDATE:
Final Vote: 220 Yes 215 No
Mothers of America, I suggest you learn Childbirth Self Sufficiency…
Jenny Hatch
PS What got me the most listening to the various speeches was John Dingell from Michigan pompously claiming that detractors in the thirties and the sixties said that Social Security and Medicare would Bankrupt the country. How he could say that with a straight face was simply beyond me. But as he said it, I thought, “AND THEY WERE RIGHT!” The biggest Ponzi Scheme, the biggest Pyramid Scandal of the past hundred years in America have been Social Security and Medicare. They NEVER should have been created. They are completely bankrupt, and this new health care move is the death knell of our American Free Enterprise System.
 And then the true Fleecing of America will begin, unless if the Senate can manage to stomp it to death.
As for me and my house? I’m Going Galt with my Health Care. Our Family has been moving in this direction for a long time. They may pass a bill that says I have to have Health Insurance, but that does not mean I have to use it…
