Wow, someone has 'script issues.
FRANKFORT — The rate of prescriptions for controlled substances increased in 118 of 120 Kentucky counties between 2005 and 2007, according to a new report released Wednesday.
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics in the Commonwealth for 2007 also shows that five Kentucky counties — Clinton, Magoffin, Whitley, Bell and Owsley — averaged more than four controlled substance prescriptions per resident.
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Sounds good doesn't it? But Max Baucus is behind it. What did he have to promise the health care industry to get this compromise?
WASHINGTON - The pharmaceutical industry agreed Saturday to spend $80 billion over the next decade improving drug benefits for seniors on Medicare and defraying the cost of President Barack Obama's health care legislation, capping secretive negotiations involving key lawmakers and the White House.
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Baucus, a Montana Democrat, has been negotiating with numerous industry groups for weeks as he tries to draft legislation that meets Obama's goal of vastly expanding health coverage, has bipartisan support and does not add to the deficit.
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Another deadly, typically noxious, ugly Bush stain that Bush's own Veterans Affairs Department disapproved of:
In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Food and Drug Administration finalized new guidelines to make it easier for drug manufacturers to promote "off-label" prescription drug uses, which can be deadly for patients.Once again, BushCo's priority is profit, not people. "Pro-life" is a term that should never be exploited again. This bunch of thugs is anti-choice, anti-humanity, anti-American.The move came despite criticism from Bush's own Department of Veterans Affairs, which said the change "favors business interests over public safety" and could lead to a "decline in drug safety." It also was crafted despite efforts by state and federal law-enforcement experts to clamp down on off-label drug marketing. [...]
As the Obama administration reviews all the midnight rules that the departing Bush administration issued, it will have to decide whether to try to modify or reverse this last-minute change in the FDA's oversight of off-label drug marketing.
Congressional leaders from both parties criticized the guideline when it was proposed last year. [...]
In the House of Representatives, Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, called the guideline a "long-coveted parting gift" for the pharmaceutical industry that "fundamentally undermines" the FDA's authority.
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