Posted on 11/17/2018 9:52:20 AM PST by TigerClaws
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Nov. 1 death of Daniel Best, a pharmaceutical executive from Bay Village who led U.S. Department of Health and Human Services efforts to lower prescription drug prices, has been ruled a suicide, officials in Washington, D.C., said Thursday.
Police say Best was found "unresponsive" near the garage door exit of an apartment building in Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard neighborhood at 5:25 a.m. on Nov. 1, and was pronounced dead by medical personnel who responded to the scene.
The city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Thursday said Best died from "multiple blunt force injuries" and it ruled his death a suicide. It would not release further information.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
I thought they ruled out Murder Suicide just in last few Months months, read it somewhere prob here.?
Is this from the Onion?
That would be a little unusual, except in Dem/Communist circles.
I see it in Asian tv dramas. They run and bash their head open on a stone column.
Visions of Dr. Timothy Cunningham.
This sounds like a great CSI episode.
Murdered, by persons unknown.
Toronto homicide detectives have confirmed Barry and Honey Sherman were targeted and killed six weeks ago, strangled, then...”
More upthread at #28 and #31.
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Thanks, thought i read it because Family was ticked they were saying Murder Suicide
Seems like there is something here they are forgetting to tell us;possibly on purpose(?). Seems a very unlikely suicide to me.
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Murder was determined after the second autopsy was performed, according to later news reports.
There was a time when such a finding would only be heard from the mouths of corrupt third world bureaucrats.
Now, our government is infested with them from top to bottom.
He jumped?
YEt another dc Seth Rich. I’d say I’m surprised ...but I’m not.Washington dc must be a horrible city filled with criminality.
The guy evidently knew his stuff. As these quotes claim he knew where the bodies were buried. There is so much money in big pharma no question this was a hit.
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Daniel Best is suddenly leading the governments campaign to bring down prescription drug prices. But nobody around town seems to know the guy. While hes a Washington outsider, hes the very definition of a pharmaceutical industry insider, having spent the last 13 years working for pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen who negotiate drug prices. Their secretive contracting and business practices have drawn suspicion from lawmakers and administration officials.
Best comes to government directly from CVS Health, where he worked on negotiating drug prices for seniors, following 12 years at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. According to a financial disclosure form, his salary and bonuses at CVS ran just over half a million dollars. Now, hes advising Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar on how to reduce prescription drug prices.
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Conversations with pharmaceutical executives and former co-workers reveal that Best is a seasoned negotiator, a tough and unwavering advocate for patient access, and an all-around friendly guy. But one thing remains a mystery: whether hell advocate for his former colleagues in the PBM world, or if, in the words of a lobbyist, hell show the public where the bodies are buried.
quote:
Azar and Best have inside knowledge, he said, which can cut two ways. Theyll know where the bodies are buried, but theyll also understand you can go after those bodies only to a certain degree, the lobbyist said. You can only shake up so much.
We had the best people...
this is what undoubtedly happened,no question:
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https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/death-of-hhs-official-daniel-best-is-ruled-a-suicide/
Peace Patriot (4781 posts) (Reply to NV Wino - post #1) November 17, 2018 at 11:46 am
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2. My thought exactly. “Multiple blunt force injuries” suicide?
So he sets himself up, outside a garage door exit, with a self-created machine that delivers blows from a hammer to whatever body sits beneath it, and no matter how unconscious that body becomes from the first blows, it just keeps inflicting more blows, so that the suicide can be sure that he will not survive. Then a friendly suicide-assistant who maybe was reluctant to shoot the guy, but sympathizes with assisted suicide and is willing to help, short of actually killing removes the machine.
Cops show up at the scene. See multiple blunt force injuries and nobody around and no hammer machine in sight. Conclude suicide.
WTF? Did the guy leave a note?
Maybe the victim hooked his hammer machine up to the garage door, and every time the garage door opened and closed, it inflicted a blunt force injury.
I mean, why is near the garage door exit part of this story?
And this is weird, too: an apartment building in Washington, D.C.s Navy Yard neighborhood. Whose apartment building? The victims?
Whats wrong with this picture?
https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2018/04/through-revolving-door-with-few.html
Look who else is upset about the hiring of the late Daniel Best:Keith Ellison,muslim in charge and woman beater who just got elected in spite of the criminal he is.
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Daniel Best from Corporate Vice President of Industry Relations at CVS Health, and from Pfizer Before Then, to Senior Adviser to the Secretary of DHHS for Drug Pricing Reform
This transition was described in some detail in FierceHealthCare on March 29, 2018:
Daniel M. Best, the former corporate vice president of industry relations for CVS Healths Medicare Part D business, will serve as senior adviser to the secretary for drug pricing reform.
Given,
The Trump administration has outlined a number of policy changes it believes can drive down drug prices, and the president predicted during his State of the Union address that drug costs ‘will come down substantially.’ But skeptics argue that some of those changeslike making generic drugs free for Medicare patients, or moving expensive drug coverage out of Part D planswould merely shift the cost and raise premiums.
Best, who will help oversee some of those efforts, worked at Pfizer for 12 years prior to his time at CVS. HHS highlighted his expertise in the pharmaceutical industry generally, and his familiarity with Medicare Part D specifically, as critical to the task of trying to reduce prescription drug costs.
However, this appointment rapidly generated some public political push-back because of its revolving door nature. As reported by Vox on April 9, 2018,
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), one of the top progressives in the House and deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, sent a letter Monday to HHS Secretary Alex Azar inquiring about the appointment of Daniel Best to oversee drug pricing reform. Best most recently worked at CVS CareMark before starting at HHS last week. He also worked at Pfizer for four years in the early 2000s.
‘Given Mr. Bests career working for the pharmaceutical and pharmacy industry, the decision to hire him poses significant potential for conflicts of interest, placing him in a position to make decisions that may pit the income of his former employers against the interests of patients in reducing prescription drug prices,’ Ellison said in the letter, shared exclusively with Vox.
Ellison flagged past drug price hikes at Pfizer and a lawsuit filed against CVS CareMark by HIV patients over access to drugs. In general, pharmacy benefits managers are under the microscope of both parties these days for their role as mysterious administrators with great power over drug transactions.
The Congress member includes a string of questions about who was involved in hiring Best, whether outside groups (particularly pharmaceutical lobbying groups) were consulted, and how Best will prevent any potential conflicts of interest from getting in the way of his job description.
So this case of the revolving door has not gone without (negative) notice, although whether that will be sufficient to change anything remains to be seen.
Note that public biographical information on Mr Best seems to be scanty, but there is nothing to indicate that he has training, experience, or expertise in biomedical science, health care, or public health.
“Could he have fallen down some stairs on purpose?
Ive never heard of someone committing suicide that way.”
Throwing yourself down a flight of stairs was a classic way to kill yourself years ago. Like slipping and falling on purpose. Of course, murders were covered up as suicides that way, too.
..died from “multiple blunt force injuries” and it ruled his death a suicide>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What did he do, beat himself to death with a pipe?
Secretary of State James Forrestal’s death was ruled a suicide
Secretary of State James Forrestal’s death was ruled a suicide even though there were signs of a struggle, he was found thrown from a closed window with a cord around his neck and left a suicide note that was in someone else’s handwriting
Search domain www.alearned.comhttps://www.alearned.com/secretary-of-state/
See My Post 59
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