So, not being able to give incentives and pretty baubles to Doctors would somehow hurt the end-consumer?
Boston may be up for a fight. They want all gifts of more than $50 reported on the government's publicly accessible web-site.
Drug companies think this is 'not fair.'
Do you?
At one point, the legislation also contained another provision opposed by the industry and supported by consumer groups, which would have banned a
practice called data mining. This practice allows pharmaceutical and biotech companies to hone their sales pitches by purchasing data about the
prescribing patterns of individual doctors.
This provision was dropped from the bill.
www.boston.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
[edit on 8-8-2008 by Maxmars]
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