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Drug Firms Say, ‘No, Canada’;

May 23, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Industry-linked groups lobby with a vengeance against bills to ease imports from the north.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The pharmaceutical lobbying group is just one of several altruistic-sounding entities with financial links to the drug industry that have materialized around the Capitol. They want to kill a flood of legislation that would ease the way for drug imports fr</p>

Drug Firms Say, ‘No, Canada’;

May 23, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Industry-linked groups lobby with a vengeance against bills to ease imports from the north.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The pharmaceutical lobbying group is just one of several altruistic-sounding entities with financial links to the drug industry that have materialized around the Capitol. They want to kill a flood of legislation that would ease the way for drug imports fr</p>

Man of the Polo Players

May 22, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<font face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2">Arnold Schwarzengger rode into office looking like Paul Revere - sounding the alarm about special interests invading Sacramento. Now details emerging about upcoming GOP fundraisers featuring...</font>

With governor’s help, state GOP angling for $2 million payday

May 19, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>"Those people are looking for access to the governor, regardless of who the money is actually going to," said Carmen Balber of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a consumer watchdog group.</p>

Consumers turning to lawsuits against wireless-phone companies

May 18, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Orange County Register</p> <p>The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said it's collecting the stories of upset wireless customers and organizing them in preparation for filing a new round of class-action lawsuits focused on alleged overcharges and poor service.</p>

Unfair Business?

May 6, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<font face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2">Arnold has filed a lawsuit against Bosley Bobbing Head Doll Company in Los Angeles Superior Court for using his unauthorized likeness on a plastic bobble head doll -- even though other...</font>

Activists rip ballot proposal on suit

May 5, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Bernadino Sun</p> <p>"This proposal is a power grab to give the biggest corporations in California a get-out-of-jail-free card under the pretext of helping small businesses," Jamie Court of FTCR said.</p>

Health care companies offering incentives to jog

April 26, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">CBS Radio News - The Osgood File</p> <p>Some consumer advocates, like HMO expert Jamie Court, think that the health insurance companies are only thinking about their own financial health.</p>

Schwarzenegger Slays Another Dragon, Winning Overhaul of Workers’ Compensation

April 17, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The New York Times</p> <p>Mr. Schwarzenegger, who as a candidate promised that he would not be swayed by special-interest money, has accepted more than $500,000 in donations from workers' compensation insurers and has drawn criticism for doing so.</p>

Locked in to cell fees;

April 16, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Consumer advocates are turning to lawsuits to address mounting complaints against wireless-phone companies.</h3><p class="source">The Orange County Register (California)</p> <p>The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said it's collecting the stories of upset wireless customers and organizing them in preparation for filing a new round of class-action lawsuits focused on alleged overcharges and poor service.</p>

What About Pat?

April 6, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<font face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2">Governor Schwarzenegger says that collecting $27 million from special interest groups over the last eight months has not affected his resolve to listen to anybody, whether or not they can afford...</font>

Gearing up for a discount drug card;

April 5, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>The new Medicare program begins in June. Deciding which card to choose will take analysis, guesswork -- and luck.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The cards will not control actual prices, only discounts, says Jamie Court, president of the FTCR, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group. "The card states what discount you'll get, but it doesn't talk about the base cost of the drug," he says.</p>