So where’s your outrage?

Health Plans are good guys,.. Absolutely not. Many Health Plans refuse antibiotic treatments for Lyme Disease Patients. Children and adolescents dont receive CBT therapy because health providers deem it too expensive, I could go on and on.

Can you name the generic co. that you work for?

Do you think that Anthem Wellpoint and other health insurer executives and board members will bring these payments up if they become eligible for the bail out money?

I’m not interested in winning friends on this site. And, I don’t think that I am at all disingenuous. I am not supportive of pharma paying physicians for activities that are clearly not in the best interest of a patient’s health–for example, financial incentives to prescribe certain drugs. I have no problems with paying physicians fair compensation for consulting services, speaking services, etc. I am also in favor of health plans being held to the same standards as pharma.

Atlex

Although unasked, I will respond and say I think insurance companies are the reason healthcare is screwed in this country (not pharma). I can see no reason whatsoever that insurance should be allowed to be a for-profit industry (unlike pharma). I sincerely hope that someone in Congress - Mr. Waxman, Mr. Grassley, are you listening? - should definitely take them to task for their misdeeds and rake them over the coals (as they have pharma).

But you two are quite disingenuous to intimate that you are not critics. You also do your fair share of criticizing. Does the fact that you have a pro-pharma bias keep you from criticizing health plans, atlex? Or would it just kill you to be on the same side of an issue with those you despise? Or do you simply not feel up to the task? Perhaps you think your insulting manner will win you some friends, yes? Meh.