Money & Politics: State health sector gets drug dollars

By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Journalist Steven Brill, in his recent 24,000-word Time magazine article on how the U.S. medical establishment is fleecing consumers, touted a database run by ProPublica, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom. This database, Dollars for Docs, logs payments from pharmaceutical companies to health professionals. Critics say this encourages…