Healthcare Regulations
Feds crack down on MD, Internet pharmacies
Federal prosecutors have indicted a Philadelphia physician for trafficking in $8.75 million worth of diet pills. Separately, five individuals have been charged in illegal Internet pharmacy operation that generated more than $33 million. The doctor, Albert Kofsky of Huntingdon, PA, distributed the pills through a fake medical practice, hiring his cleaning lady to masquerade as a nurse. Operators of the pharmacies, Universal Pharmacy Solutions (also of Huntingdon) and Rx Medical …
... Read more...Clinton learned 1993 lesson, pushes smaller reforms
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has abandoned the grandiose ideas of healthcare system overhaul that galvanized her opponents in 1993 and made "HillaryCare" the biggest fiasco of the first Clinton administration. But she hasn't abandoned her concern, and is advocating smaller reforms to extend health insurance coverage to all--especially children. She applauds state and local efforts like those afoot in San Francisco and Massachusetts, but says a federal solution is needed eventually. …
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