Will `Big Pharma continue its shopping spree?
Major pharmaceutical companies engaged in a frenzy of mergers and acquisitions over the last year or so, in part to make sure their R&D pipelines are stocked with promising drugs. That trend includes shopping for biotechnology therapies and diagnostics being developed outside their own labs – often in smaller companies such as those found in Wisconsin. While some worry about Big Pharma buying up technologies and moving jobs elsewhere, the recent pattern has been to keep facilities and workers in place. • Making health-care reform work for Wisconsin. Single-payer advocates don’t like the Senate’s health-care bill because it doesn’t give the federal government enough power; most conservatives oppose it because they think it goes too far and contains too many vote-buying pork barrel deals. The fact remains that the status quo isn’t working and change is coming. The Senate bill could help Wisconsin in at least two ways: changing a 40-year-old Medicare payment disadvantage and protecting th
