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Government portal for the CDC. Provides medical and health care information, research, policies, reports, agencies, experts, tools, resources, contacts, and news.

Drugmaker lobby has said it would oppose legislation allowing the government to negotiate prices on medicines sold through the U.S. drug program Medicare. They have offered to lower costs by $80 billion over 10 years (in general).

This is really unbelievable: The drug and medical-device industries are mobilizing to gut a provision in the stimulus bill that would spend $1.1 billion on research comparing medical treatments, portraying it as the first step to government rationing.

I've contributed a lot to this discussion.  Perhaps I've been obssessive.  I'm concerned about the state of healthcare in this country, though.  I'm upset about the rampant myths and lies being tossed around about healthcare reform.  I'm concerned about all the lazy thinking we citizens are exhibiting. Misinformation, misunderstandings, bias, prejudice, narrowly self-interested polemics, anger, manipulations, and nastiness are badly hurting the process (and probable outcome) of healthcare reform debates and efforts. I can't NOT write long, detailed comments when I read stuff that's...well...WHACK!