While transparency is a necessary first step, it is not sufficient.
It drives me crazy to hear all this talk about, 'We can't pay for healthcare reform.' We can pay for healthcare reform, but we've got to get...
But, the conclusion of all of you is that this practice, of industry-funded and specific industry-funded CME drives up the cost of medicine ...
Medicine is a lot better now than it was when we were kids. That doesn't mean that industry should fund CME.
the synergy, Senator Franken, is huge.
So, when the healthcare reform debate takes place, and there are some Senators, like myself, who think that the money to pay for this is act...
Opening Statement of Senator Al Franken
Thank you, gentlemen.
I'm proud that my State of Minnesota was the first State to enact legislation, in 1993, requiring public reporting of drug-company marketing...
I would like to extend a special welcome to my distinguished colleague Senator Boxer.
I would like to keep it that way.