BIG PHARMA PAYOUTS TO CONGRESSMEN

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ENZI AND EDWARD KENNEDY ARE ON THE TAKE FROM PHARM CO'S. THEY ARE

BEHIND SENATE BILLS 1082 AND 3807 !!!

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron8.htm

 

On August 3, 2006 Senators Michael Enzi (R-WY) and Edward Kennedy (D-

MA) introduced S 3807: Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of

2006. Never has a name been more misleading. It should be

called " Exposure of Americans to Risky Medications and Creation of a

New FDA Drug Company Act of 2006. "

 

Instead of creating an independent office within the FDA to monitor

drug safety, this legislation creates a new office within the FDA to

act as a drug company. It will be named the Reagan-Udall Institute

for Applied Bio-Medical Research and it will be funded by special

interests in Big Pharma and the biotech industry. Its job is to

sponsor the fast track approval of risky medications onto the

market. This legislation is seeking to turn the FDA's risky Critical

Path initiative into a full scale government agency. It is an

attempt to fund and sanction the corrupt FDA/Big Pharma plan I

thoroughly explain in Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's

Betrayal of America.

 

The legislation was crafted after extensive negotiations with Big

Pharma and the FDA, meaning it contains everything they want. It

provides lip service to consumer safety, the smokescreen that is

being used to promote the legislation to the public. In reality, it

is full of Big Pharma loopholes that will shift any real safety

problems into Advisory Panels composed of Big Pharma members and

affiliates (the same safety problem we have now).

 

It pretends to set up a database for clinical trial information to

improve disclosure of side effects to the public. Instead, it

specifically excludes all of the FDA/drug company experiments,

including experiments on humans that will occur prior to a formal

intervention trial. This means the most risky experimental

information will forever be hidden from the public. Furthermore, the

actual intention of this clinical trial database is not to give

consumers more information about side effects of drugs, it is to act

as a major marketing tool for Big Pharma to release results of

clinical trials to support off label drug use. Such off label use

could never meet the standards of safety for a full drug approval,

thus, misleading clinical trials will create momentum for physicians

to use drugs in ways they were not approved (condoning and worsening

another current and noteworthy safety issue).

 

Enzi and Kennedy receive significant campaign funding from the

health and pharmaceutical sectors. Even worse, these two men are in

charge of the Senate committee that holds hearings on FDA-related

matters and can easily bring this legislation to the floor of the

Senate for a vote. This could happen in September or it could happen

in a lame duck session of Congress after the fall elections. It

could be added on to any house bill as an amendment, sliding it

quickly to the President who would sign it in a flash. Unlike true

FDA reform proposed by other Congressional leaders, this legislation

is creating a government agency to further collusion between Big

Pharma and the FDA.

 

FDA Leadership is Seriously Flawed

 

Enzi and Kennedy are also trying to get Andrew von Eschenbach

appointed as the permanent head of the FDA. Von Eschenbach has

repeatedly stated that the number one priority of the FDA is the

fast track approval of new and unproven medications. The reason Enzi

and Kennedy are failing to ask any tough questions at the von

Eschenbach confirmation hearings is now painfully clear, they are

completely behind the new FDA plan to expose Americans to undue drug

risk and human experimentation for the profits of Big Pharma.

 

Take Action Now

 

Enough is enough. It is time to flood Enzi and Kennedy with

objections to their outlandish proposed legislation. Let your own

Senators know you oppose S 3807. Tell them you are outraged that

Enzi and Kennedy are seeking to create a new office within the FDA

to permit the FDA to act as a drug company.

 

Tell your Congressional representatives you support effective

legislation that is intended to protect the American public from

harm. (HR 4429, S 930, HR 2090, HR 3196, S 470) Tell them you are

fed up with real FDA reform being squashed in committee by Big

Pharma allies.

 

Demand that Enzi and Kennedy ask real questions about the financial

connections of von Eschenbach and his numerous friends in the cancer

industry. It is fairly obvious that the four billion dollar budget

of the National Cancer Institute will wind up, via von Eschenbach's

cancer industry friends, funding this new FDA drug company so as to

generate and sanction huge profits for the vested interests of the

sickness industry. How much money will wind up in von Eschenbach's

pockets? How much money already has?