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Emails Show Drug Company Used Third-Party Medical Groups to Influence...
Off Market Tactics to Keep Generic Competitors at Bay By Marian Wang ProPublica, May 25, 2011, 2:30 p.m. Brand-name drug manufacturers have long used controversial tactics [1] to keep their generic...
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Misdirection in Goldman Sachs’s Housing Short
Goldman Sachs appears to be trying to clear its name By Jesse Eisinger ProPublica, June 15, 2011, 3:10 pm The compelling Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on the financial crisis [1] is...
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Merrill Lynch Investigated for CDO Deal Involving Magnetar
Hedge Fund Probed By Marian Wang ProPublica, June 15, 2011, 3:10 pm The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Merrill Lynch short-changed investors and gave undue influence to...
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What Does the S&P Downgrade Mean?
If France Is Rated Higher Than the US! By Marian Wang ProPublica, Aug. 8, 2011, 5:38 p.m. The decision by credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the United States [1] after markets...
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Doctor’s Lawsuit Targets Parents of Patient Who Overdosed
By Marshall Allen ProPublica, Aug. 26, 2011, 10:57 am The dramatic rise in prescription narcotics use [1]—and the subsequent increase in overdose deaths—has led to a spate of lawsuits around the...
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Does Financial Regulation Kill Jobs?
Perhaps Not! By Marian Wang ProPublica, Sept. 12, 2011, 1:20 pm With the presidential campaign in motion, and President Obama urging immediate passage of his new jobs bill, the attention in Washington...
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Health-Care Reform Rules Would Restrict Public Reporting
Information Restricted to “qualified entities” Only By Marshall Allen ProPublica, Sept 15th, 2011, 10:46 am It’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of patients die annually from preventable harm...
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Injured War Contractors Sue Over Health Care
And … Disability Payments By T. Christian Miller ProPublica, September 27, 2011, 10:11 am Private contractors injured while working for the U.S. government in Iraq and Afghanistan filed a class...
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Pfizer’s Latest Twist on ‘Pay for Delay’
Protecting Brand-Named Drugs By Marian Wang ProPublica, November, 14th, 2011, 2:41 pm Pharmaceutical companies have sought for years to protect their expensive brand-name drugs by paying generic rivals...
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Drug Companies Reduce Payments to Doctors as Scrutiny Mounts
Dollars for Doctors [How Industry Money Reaches Physicians] Part of a year-end series on major investigations By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein ProPublica, January 3rd, 2012, 2:55 p.m. Some of the...
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Physicians Taking Stock of the “Stock Act”
A Side-by-Side Comparison By Lena Groeger ProPublica The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or Stock Act, recently passed in both the House and Senate. The new law would make it easier for...
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What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court’s Health Care Decisions?
On the PP-ACA By Lena Groeger ProPublica Yesterday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on the health care reform law. So, in this essay, we made a map of the possible outcomes following the...
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The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on Our Healthcare System
Reading and Reviewing By Blair Hickman and Cora Currier ProPublica, March 30, 2012, 1:44 pm As we wait for the Supreme Court to issue its verdict on the health-care reform law we rounded up some of...
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Introducing the ProPublica Patient Harm Community
By Daniel Victor and Marshall Allen ProPublica, May 21, 2012, 2:32 p.m. On Facebook You could fill a baseball stadium many times with the people who experts say die each year from an error [1], injury...
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How Health Reform Could Expand Medicaid
PP-ACA Results State-by-State By Lena Groeger ProPublica Experts estimate that nearly 16 million Americans could be added to the Medicaid rolls by 2019 under an expansion in the Affordable Care Act....
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Death Takes a [Variable Annuity] Insurance Policy
How a Lawyer Exploited the Fine Print and Found Himself Facing Federal Charges By Jake Bernstein / @Jake_Bernstein / ProPublica The Industry The life insurance industry tried to make variable...
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Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Medicare and Medicaid
The Big Picture View By Suevon Lee ProPublica, Sept. 14, 2012, 2:26 p.m. Medicare and Medicaid, which provide medical coverage for seniors, the poor and the disabled, together [1]make up nearly a...
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How Bad Is Our National Debt Problem, Anyway?
And … Will a Deal Fix It? By Theodoric Meyer ProPublica, Dec. 28, 2012, 12:34 p.m. President Obama will meet with congressional leaders today [1] in another attempt to avert the fiscal cliff — the...
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A Graphic Guide to the Sequester
By Christie Thompson [ProPublica, Feb. 28th 2013, 3:24 p.m] There’s been a lot of talk of the looming budget cuts that, without a last-minute deal, must go into effect by 11:59 p.m. ET tomorrow night....
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How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional
The IRS Controversy By Kim Barker and Justin Elliott ProPublica, May 17, 2013, 5:14 p.m. The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by...
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