blowing the whistle

Continuing with our annals of health care crime, Bloomberg.com reported a new verdict on a very old case:

Former McKesson Corp.

Chairman Charles McCall was convicted in a second trial of participating in a fraud 10 years ago that cost investors $8.6 billion, one of the largest white-collar crimes at the time.

In the Health Beat Blog, Maggie Mahar discussed how a branch of a labor union, the International Association of EMTS and Paramedics, an affiliate of The National Association of Government Employees (IAEP/SEIU), has been helping to market Lipitor (atorvastatin, by Pfizer Inc).

I am not sure I have heard of previous cases of labor unions enlisted in stealth marketing efforts by pharmaceutical companies.