Hospitals, firms in healthcare back Kennedy institute
Drug companies, hospitals, and insurance firms have helped to amass $20 million to finance a nonprofit educational institute in Boston that will honor Senator Edward M. Kennedy, using his career as a case study of a powerful senator.
The biggest donation has been $5 million from Amgen Inc., a national biotechnology drug firm based in California that depends heavily on federal healthcare policies and Medicare prescription drug reimbursements for its profits. One of Amgen's lobbyists, Nick Littlefield, is a former top Kennedy aide.
Other large donors have been Partners Healthcare, the Boston nonprofit corporation that is the umbrella for Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, with a gift of $1 million. The Dana- Farber Cancer Institute contributed $1 million. Kennedy's influence in Washington has been crucial for those institutions and other university-affiliated hospitals in Boston that rely heavily on research funding, as well as reimbursement policies.
I don't even know where to begin.
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Unfortunate
does not begin to describe that mess. What an incredible conflict of interest.
Kennedy's been taken from the luncheon
to the hospital on a stretcher. He looked pretty good this morning, I thought.
Oh, geez, Byrd, too!
Too bad.
I saw that
no one is going to criticize Kennedy for a while.
Does he have a pulse?
If yes, then he can still sell you out to the highest bidder.
Now That Deserves a Flag, ralphb
but this isn't Kos, so you get to be a mean-spirited SOB in public.
And I get to say you're a jerk for enjoying doing it so much.
Otherwise you'd have refrained, wouldn't you?
Get on back to RedStateofDelusion or LittleGreenGoofballs, faster.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18