USA Today article on Lake Michigan Ferry Fight
Please see the article that was in USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/09/02/lake-michigan-ferry-lobbying-fight/14961531/
Congratulations to Exact Sciences!
Congratulations to Kevin Conroy and the team at our client Exact Sciences. CMS yesterday gave final approval to the test and set a price of $502. Cologaurd finds 92% of cancer and 69% of advanced pre cancer. It is a test that has a chance if widely adopted to wipe out colon cancer. We are…
Lake Michigan Ferry Fight Rages in Washington
The Badger ferry should do one simple thing—Stop Dumping Coal Ash in Lake Michigan. Donovan Slack from Gannett reported on the long term effort by Senator Durbin, EPA and other to end the practice. I predict that the Badger will try to gain more time to keep polluting. It is a practice that was first…
Organ donation controversy
Recently there has been great controversy about the allocation of organs for donation. The question is: How do we increase the supply of organs and save the most lives. The Department of Health and Human Services has developed a complex set of metrics to judge quality. The upshot of these metrics has been to incentivize…
Liver Battle Pits Midwest, South Against California, New York
On September 16 UNOS convene a national dialogue on liver allocation. Previously UNOS was planning to redistrict the country in a way that would do great harm to the Midwest and South. On behalf of our client —the Transplant surgeons at Indiana—we worked for many months with little help or support but didn’t give up.…
NH GOP Attacks Shaheen for “Fat Cat” Fundraiser
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/215561-nhgop-hits-shaheen-for-fat-cat-lobbyist-fundraiser
FDA and CMS Approve of Exact Science’s Cologuard
FDA and CMS Approve of Exact Science’s Cologuard In a first, on the very same day that FDA announced approval of a new test called Cologuard, which detects 92% of cancer and 69% of advanced pre-cancer, CMS approved its intention to cover the test for Medicare. This was the first item to go through parallel…
Ad Salesman’s Apology will Clear Extortion Charge
Please read this article from JS Online: An Ad Salesman’s Apology will Clear Extortion Charge
HUD attempts to regulate Escape Homes in a dramatic bureaucratic overreach
HUD is attempting to regulate Escape Homes, (www.escapehomes.us) the premiere maker of Park Model Homes as a manufactured housing product. It is a bizarre effort to redo long standing standards that have been in place since 1988. Fortunately the Recreation Vehicle Association is backing up our claim that HUD’s claim is an over reach. We…
The Badger Continues to Dump Coal
In 1966 Gaylord Nelson said that ships should stop dumping coal ash in the Great Lakes. Forty eight years later only one ship–the Badger–continues to dump coal ash in Lake Michigan. Repeatedly the Badger has promised it will stop dumping coal and repeatedly it is failed to do so. In 2013 the Badger signed a…