by Gordon Hensley | Feb 23, 2021 | advocacy, Business, Campaign 2020, CDC, CMS, COVID, health care, HHS, Media Relations, Pharmaceutical, SNF, state government, Trump
Kudos to CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan for her excellent interview of former Trump Administration Deputy National Security Advisor, Matthew F. Pottinger, surrounding several facets of the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 response. The discussion...
by Gordon Hensley | Aug 7, 2018 | Business, Media Relations, Pharma, Trump
Its not often one sees a federal agency head double the output of news releases and, according to Fierce Pharma, put out 53 policy statements in the first half of 2018 — up from just 4 during the same time period last year. That’s impressive by any...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 15, 2018 | Campaign 2018, GOP Politics, taxes, Trump, U.S. House
Former National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Davis remains one of the smartest, savviest, streetwise political wise men in Washington — and he landed over at MSNBC yesterday to talk with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Daily about PA-18...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 10, 2018 | advocacy, Business, CMS, health care, Health Reform, Pharma, Trump
This week marked a true rarity for the Trump Administration: a coordinated, effective burst of reform-minded tough talk from three separate health policy leaders, in three consecutive days. In rat-tat-tat fashion, his HHS Secretary, CMS Administrator and FDA...
by Gordon Hensley | Feb 25, 2018 | advocacy, Business, lobbying, Media Relations, polling, Trump
The #1 Axios item today, “1 big thing: United States of Corporate America,” points out that “corporate social responsibility” (shorthanded as “CSR” within companies) is now one of the hottest topics in boardrooms… as corporate...
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 31, 2017 | Campaign 2018, GOP Politics, Trump
Ralph Northam beat Ed Gillespie. And that’s all that really matters as a tumultuous 2017 comes to a close. Prevailing in a brutal nationally-watched statewide — where “survivor” is a more apt characterization than “winner” — is a major achievement; incredibly...