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Amid Bad Publicity, Drug Company Uses Progressive Union to Peddle Its Products

By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. Posted March 26, 2008.


Why is the IAEP, a division of the SEIU, using union letterhead to endorse Lipitor and push drug sales pitches on its members?
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Maggie Mahar is a fellow at the Century Foundation and the author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Harper/Collins 2006) and Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982–1999 (Harper/Collins, 2003).

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