Posted on 01/15/2007 7:07:06 AM PST by milwguy
Washington - Federal health officials have warned freshman Rep. Steve Kagen that his Wisconsin allergy practice is in apparent violation of federal law for manufacturing and selling allergy shots without a valid license.
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Buy a link hereAccording to a letter sent to Kagen by the Food and Drug Administration, Kagen manufactured a variety of ragweed and grass allergen vaccines from commercially distributed pollen and sold the shots to patients at his clinic and in at least 24 other states.
The FDA letter, which was dated Dec. 18 but wasn't posted online until Thursday, said that Kagen, an Appleton Democrat, did not have a valid license required for introducing a biological product into interstate commerce
Dr. Multimillionaire? I was just thinking this A.M., you don't get to be a multimillionaire as an allergist ( not like heart surgeon), and wondering how big his contract with CNN could have been.
This whole episode is like a Saturday Night Live episode. I think we will have a ton of laughs with this dude over the next two years. Whatever comic action he was performing prior to this new job...will likely just carry on. I don't see him cleaning up his act and acting like a congressional type. He'll still be Dr. Millionare...first-rate loco-weed salesman.
Well I am sure Nancy Peloci will step up and clean up this mess, afterall she did promise to rid us of the culture of corruption.
He'll wiggle out of this just like they all do.
Follow the money. Surely all the money that flowed into his campaign did not come out of his own pocket. Consider WHO is the strategist that wants George W. Bush removed from office, or at least made much less effective.
My spider-sense is tingling here, and it keeps pointing back at George Soros. This is not just a twofer to Soros, it is a LOT-fer the money.
Violating FDA regulation (by providing a compounded treatment without FDA sanction), plus the whacks at Bush, and coupled with a platform for drumming up anti-war sentiment, that seat in Congress may prove to be a pretty cheap buy.
In more ways than one.
On the upside, now Patches won't have to go far to get his prescriptions for Demerol, Valium, Lithium or say ... Cocaine Hydrochloride.
Soros seems like a good bet to me too.
First off I did not vote for the guy and if he runs in 08 I will not be voting for him then either. In fact, I will probably sign up to work with his opponent.
He has a chain of clinics in the region so he is a practicing capitalist (at least at night w/the shades down) as well as an allergist.
But think about this. Do we really want to make it harder for him to return to his practice?
I would think we should be underscoring the fact he wants MORE of the same with his No Patient Left Behind stuff. That is if he didn't like the FDA snooping through his business why should he sponsor even more federal meddling.
I have yet to get the pulse of the community on the FDA thing, guessing most people will realize its just another example of an OVERREACHING federal government and cut him slack. However, on the radio this morning people were calling and expressing regret for having voted for him, over his tall tale telling.
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