Tag: lobbying
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Bill to shield nursing homes from lawsuits clears Senate along party lines; not looking healthy in House despite TV, radio ads
Last week the state Senate approved on party lines a bill that would make lawsuits against nursing homes go through a review panel first. Republicans supported the bill and Democrats voted against...
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McConnell helped Amgen delay price limits on dialysis drug
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whose public statements usually emphasize the need to cut federal spending on entitlement programs, as they did in Lexington Friday, apparently passed up...
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Nursing home chain says it will lease its Kentucky facilities because legislature didn’t pass bill to filter lawsuits
A major nursing-home chain says it will lease all of its Kentucky properties to a Texas company because a bill to insulate nursing homes from lawsuits did not pass the General...
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Pill-mill bill does not pass as legislative session ends in failure; special session starts Monday
Though it’s considered by experts as the most important bill needed this year, the Senate failed to pass a measure that would crack down on so-called pill mills before the...
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Doctors’ lobby still working for changes in ‘pill mill’ legislation
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Medical Association, historically one of the most powerful lobbying interests at the General Assembly, has mounted a last-ditch attempt to change or...
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Legislature passes bill on personal-care homes but stalls on one to regulate pill mills as doctors lobby hard
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The effort to quash “pill mills” that feed one of Kentucky’s worst problems, prescription drug abuse, stalled on the next-to-last day of the General...
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Makers of Sudafed, similar cold medicines again lead in legislative lobbying expenses, and that doesn’t count their radio ad campaign
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association, which is fighting legislation that would limit the amount of pseudoephedrine that could be bought without a prescription, remained the leading spender among lobbying interests...
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House panel OKs “meds for meth” bill; chair predicts passage
The bill to limit purchases of the cold medicine used to make methamphetamine cleared another legislative hurdle Monday, and the chairman of the committee that approved it predicted that it...
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Group fighting meds-for-meth bill says it spent nearly $200,000 in January on lobbying, and that apparently omits radio buys
The group fighting a bill that would make the key ingredient for making methamphetamine available only by prescription spent more than $194,000 last month alone to lobby lawmakers, far more...
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Law enforcement and allies getting ducks in row in 2nd bid to pass bill to require a prescription to buy pseudoephedrine
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News With police finding 20 percent more meth labs in Kentucky than a year ago, they and others are again encouraging state legislators to make pseudoephedrine less...