Big Pharma ghostwrites medical research

Is something like Wyeth ghostwriting research reports to boost hormone therapy not only an argument for the “public option” on national healthcare, but, for a variety of other issues, namely:

• Big Pharma advertising being regulated like Big Tobacco or Big Alcohol advertising;
• Public financing of Congressional campaigns;
• A “public option” for pharmaceutical coverage, as a separate sidebar;
• Getting rid of Team Obama’s deals with Big Pharma, including blocking reimportation from Canada.

Just about as despicable is DesignWrite, the Princeton-based “medical communications company” (in NYTimes-ese) that did at least 20 such reports. And the doctors who assisted with this.