By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD _ What if purchasing medical products and services were like buying peanut butter? Grocery stores have several brands and varieties: smooth, chunky, old-fashioned, natural, organic, no added sugar, reduced fat, no-stir, and pre-mixed with Read More
Proposed Rebate Rule Hands a Hefty Payday to Big Pharma Paid for By Patients AND Taxpayers By Rich Pezzullo _ There is full -fledged crisis that is not on the border – it’s in our families and can no longer Read More
By Matt Rooney _ Politics is, at its core, the art of persuasion. “Spin” is to be expected. But some claims are simply so beyond the pale — so outside the realm of truth, and context, and just plain old Read More
By Matt Rooney _ Bob Menendez may be on record as ‘saddened’ by the lengthy prison term facing his long-time friend and donor Salomon Melgen, Save Jerseyans, but should anyone be? More to the point: where does Menendez of all people get off Read More
By The Staff _ Dr. Salomon Melgen of Florida, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s former co-defendant in a federal corruption indictment, got hammered with a lengthy 17-year sentence on Thursday in addition to $42.6 million in Medicare restitution. Melgen and Menendez are Read More
NEWARK — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s close friend donated $300,000 to a Super PAC dedicated to Democratic senators shortly before the New Jersey politician had a meeting with a high-ranking government health care official about a disputed Medicare policy, a Read More
NEWARK — Tom Harkin, the former U.S. senator from Iowa, told a federal prosecutor Wednesday that he met with Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida ophthalmologist, as U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez was lobbying for the resolution of the doctor’s multi-million dollar Read More
Posted with permission from The Dan Cirucci Blog — Let’s tell it like it is. The entrenched Republicans in the U. S. Senate are in the process of making fools of themselves. And the biggest culprits are the Futile Four who Read More
More ominous news for Bob Menendez, Save Jerseyans. On Friday, Dr. Salomon Melgen, accused of improperly billing the U.S. government for $100+ million in medical insurance payments, was convicted by a federal jury. Senator Menendez, a long time friend (and recipient Read More
