SCOTUS Allows NH Prescription Privacy to Remain

This is a big PhRMA priority in New Hampshire (4.00 / 2)

. . . and I'm glad they took it on the chin.

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 13:05:25 PM CDT

This should be a first step in limiting the control Pharma has over doctors presecriptions. (4.00 / 2)

NH should adopt a strict code of ethics that bars pharmaceutical companies from gifts to doctors designed in influence their prescription practices. In any other context, these gifts would be considered bribes.

(Oops-- in any other context except the relationship between elected representatives and lobbyists).

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 14:17:07 PM CDT

Absolutely. (4.00 / 2)

Love the "oops".

If there's someone I'd like NOT breathing over my doctor's shoulder, it's Big PhRMA.

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by: ElsieElsie @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 14:26:40 PM CDT

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Thank you Governor Lynch for Taking the Right Side On Privacy (0.00 / 0)

The Law was voided May 1 , 2007...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 1, 2007

CONCORD, N.H., April 30 (AP) - A federal judge on Monday struck down a New Hampshire law that makes doctors' prescription-writing habits confidential, saying it violates the First Amendment.

Signed in June 2006 by Gov. John Lynch, the law made New Hampshire the first state to try to block pharmaceutical companies' hard-sell pitches by restricting access to data that identifies doctors and other prescribers.

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Progress on the protection of individual rights is the hallmark of the Lynch years. Rejection of Real ID and the upholding of this law on appeal continue to put NH in the forefront of States who value an individual's rights to Privacy.

Interestingly enough Kelly Ayotte is referred to in the masculine.

AARP, the New Hampshire Medical Society and the Department of Health and Human Services supported the law. Supporters said the ban would protect doctor-patient privacy and prevent salespeople from unduly influencing prescription choices.

The state attorney general, Kelly Ayotte, said the decision would be reviewed before he decided on an appeal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05...
The NYT had no idea who she was obviously.

'Aints no more

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 17:21:50 PM CDT

Being first in the nation on privacy rights? (4.00 / 1)

Sounds like The New Hampshire Advantage to me.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 17:48:32 PM CDT

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I'm at a doctor's office (4.00 / 2)

at least once a week. The number of drug company reps I see every week is staggering. They haul in rolling suitcases full of stuff. All around the offices are pads, pens, and other drug company detritus. I can't imagine what it must be like in a big medical practice - or how anyone gets any work done with the drug reps breathing heavily at them, and offering bribes....I mean tickets to ballgames, etc.
 

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by: susanthe @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 21:55:07 PM CDT

It is disgusting n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 22:33:20 PM CDT

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