BIG PHARMA AND THE TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

The Trans Pacific Partnership is a massive trade deal soon to be completed. The text of the international trade deal is a closely held secret. Members of the US Congress can read it only if they agree to leave all recording devices, pens and their staffers out of the room. The Trans Pacific Partnership is a bad trade deal for all Americans and the world at large. If the Congress does this, our health policy will be compromised for years.

GOVERNMENT INTRUSION SOARS CANCER COSTS FOR YOU

The federal government, the biggest payer of cancer care, made cancer costs soar because Medicare pays an extra $6500 a year when chemotherapy is given to a patient in a hospital owned facility. Private insurers also pay a higher premium for care delivered in a hospital setting. The costs will keep spiraling upward because of Government intrusion and clever lobbyists, forcing cancer patients from private practitioners to hospital owned facilities incurring much higher costs.