Latest Pajamas Media Column (’The Perils of Socialized Healthcare’) Is Up
(Carried to the top Friday evening to shed light on a disclosure non-controversy. See UPDATE.)
It’s here. I will post it at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning under a different title with the same content when the blackout lifts.
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UPDATE, 10:30 p.m. — A PJM reader has drawn attention in a comment at the PJM post to the fact that I have done business with three pharmaceutical companies, and thus must have a “conflict of interest” that might cause me to rail against socialized medicine so that those companies might benefit from the overwhelming weight of my advocacy.
This commenter did not correspond with me for clarification, but instead attempted to get me into hot water by just throwing a comment out there (there’s a word for that: gutless). I do not know who this person “Ray” is, but earlier this evening I responded to PJM management, which concluded based on what I presented that any kind of disclosure or disclaimer is unnecessary.
In case anyone is still awake, I haven’t made any presentations or developed any educational programs for employees at the named companies since 2005 (though it would be nice if that changed). During that time, I was never paid directly by those companies, but instead served as a sub-sub-contractor (in fact, they are identified as “clients of other trainers” on the relevant page at MonetaryMatters.com. To wit, I have never had a direct business relationship with those companies. Further details beyond these would bore readers to tears.
