Trumping En Masse Through the Revolving Door - the Trump Advisory and Transition Teams

We have frequently posted on therevolving door as a type of severe conflict of interest, if not corruption, affecting health care.  Our posts have covered various cases of people going from influential positions in or related to health care and some anti-health corporations, and government positions that make health care policy or regulate health care. Donald J Trump, the president elect, has pledged to " drain the swamp, " that is, to generally reduce crony capitalism, conflicts of interest, the revolving door, and government corruption (e.g., lookhere.)  However, it appears that his campaign advisory/ transition team has been full of people who had just traversed the revolving door.  Examples I have found so far follow, in alphabetical order.Rich BaggerBack in July, 2016,per BioCentury ExtraEVP of Consumer Affairs and Market Access Rich Bagger has taken a leave of absence fromCelgene Corp to work on the transition team for presidential candidate Donald Trump....Mr Bagger recently left the transition team, apparently as part of the purge of Chris Christie associates.  Celgene is a pharmaceutical company that was one of the leaders in pushing the envelope in drug pricing (upward that is, e.g., seethis post). Stephen Feinbergthe co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management LP ... was relieved by Mr. Trump ’s victory, a person familiar with the matter said. Mr. Feinberg came on board as an economic adviser [per the Wall Street Journal, November 10, ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: Altria Celgene Cerberus conflicts of interest Donald Trump Pfizer PhRMA Purdue Pharma revolving doors Source Type: blogs