PRforPharma:

My advice for pharma social media: "Ignore the consumer." Surprised? Keep reading

It turns out he is suggesting that pharmaceutical companies use social media to build relationships with individual patients. I think we should call his bluff.

Note - AHIP is also on Twitter!

Have fun. Go wild!

Dick Gephardt works for PhRMA. Explains a lot.

Update - please read the National Nurses Movement diary at Open Left.

Pravda:

More Support for Health-Care Fix, But Funding Coverage Still Sticking Point
A coalition of hospitals, insurers, employers, physicians, drug makers and consumers released a report yesterday endorsing a set of policy changes that could cut in half the number of uninsured Americans.

How do you know Obama's health care plan is bad for YOU?

When the Big Pharma pushers try to sell it to you:

Conceding that it has long been viewed as Republican-dominated, the industry's lobbying arm plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on an advertising blitz promoting Obama-style health coverage for every American. The first spot -- sponsored by the drug lobby, consumer and labor groups, and health providers -- will be unveiled today.

The Politico has story about Center for Medicine in the Public Interest:

As part of its campaign, the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest has created BigGovHealth.org, a website full of stories from people who have faced health care problems in Europe and Canada. The nonprofit advocates a free-market approach to health care, and its biggest contributors in 2006 were drug maker Pfizer and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, according to tax filings.