It’s no surprise that the pharmaceutical industry is appalled at proposals to set up a national registry of its gifts and payments to doctors. Too much information might lead patients to suspect that their doctors are choosing costly medicines out of gratitude to the manufacturers rather than for the best medical or economic interests of their patients.
That's just the first paragraph in the full editorial.
Does the technique sound familiar? "Gifts" being use to influence decisions, in this case doctors?
Try Lobbyist giving politicians "gifts." The technique is the same, a way influence decisions made by politicians in making laws.
Big Business, Pharma or others, does not want the public to know what they are doing in the background. They want a shroud so the man-on-the-street cannot be aware that what their doctor or politician is doing may not be in their individual best interest.
"'SiCKO' Truth Squad Sets CNN Straight"
The above link is to Michael Moore's rebuttal to the misinformation of CNN's The Situation Room broadcast of 7/8/2007 (video link to show included).
It's a perfect example of bending the facts to make the American healthcare consumer accept the big-business (GOP) healthcare run programs.
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