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Death of HHS official Daniel Best is ruled a suicide
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Posted on 11/17/2018 9:52:20 AM PST by TigerClaws

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To: LucyT

I thought they ruled out Murder Suicide just in last few Months months, read it somewhere prob here.?


41 posted on 11/17/2018 11:58:24 AM PST by easternsky
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To: TigerClaws

Is this from the Onion?


42 posted on 11/17/2018 12:01:11 PM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: oh8eleven

That would be a little unusual, except in Dem/Communist circles.


43 posted on 11/17/2018 12:02:36 PM PST by nobamanomore
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To: TigerClaws

I see it in Asian tv dramas. They run and bash their head open on a stone column.


44 posted on 11/17/2018 12:12:23 PM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: LucyT

Visions of Dr. Timothy Cunningham.


45 posted on 11/17/2018 12:53:48 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: neverevergiveup

This sounds like a great CSI episode.


46 posted on 11/17/2018 1:43:24 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: easternsky; bgill

Murdered, by persons unknown.

Toronto homicide detectives have confirmed Barry and Honey Sherman were targeted and killed six weeks ago, strangled, then...”

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/01/26/toronto-police-to-update-on-barry-and-honey-sherman-death-case-friday.html

More upthread at #28 and #31.

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47 posted on 11/17/2018 2:49:09 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

Thanks, thought i read it because Family was ticked they were saying Murder Suicide


48 posted on 11/17/2018 2:59:11 PM PST by easternsky
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To: The Old Hoosier

Seems like there is something here they are forgetting to tell us;possibly on purpose(?). Seems a very unlikely suicide to me.


49 posted on 11/17/2018 3:06:00 PM PST by oldtech
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To: easternsky; bgill

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Murder was determined after the second autopsy was performed, according to later news reports.


50 posted on 11/17/2018 3:21:12 PM PST by LucyT
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To: TigerClaws
"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."

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.

51 posted on 11/17/2018 3:47:43 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: neverevergiveup

He jumped?


52 posted on 11/17/2018 3:53:10 PM PST by Chickensoup (Never count on anyone, ever.)
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To: TigerClaws

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.


53 posted on 11/17/2018 4:35:52 PM PST by rodguy911 (Maga: USA supports Trump. Home of the Free because of the brave.)
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To: TigerClaws
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/death-of-hhs-official-daniel-best-charged-with-lowering-drug-prices-is-ruled-a-suicide/80246829/

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 government’s campaign to bring down prescription drug prices. But nobody around town seems to know the guy. While he’s a Washington outsider, he’s 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, he’s 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 he’ll advocate for his former colleagues in the PBM world, or if, in the words of a lobbyist, he’ll show the public “where the bodies are buried.”

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Azar and Best have inside knowledge, he said, which can cut two ways. “They’ll know where the bodies are buried, but they’ll 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...

54 posted on 11/17/2018 4:42:20 PM PST by rodguy911 (Maga: USA supports Trump. Home of the Free because of the brave.)
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To: TigerClaws

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 victim’s?

What’s wrong with this picture?


55 posted on 11/17/2018 4:51:53 PM PST by rodguy911 (Maga: USA supports Trump. Home of the Free because of the brave.)
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To: TigerClaws

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 Health’s 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 changes—like making generic drugs free for Medicare patients, or moving expensive drug coverage out of Part D plans—would 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. Best’s 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.


56 posted on 11/17/2018 5:03:00 PM PST by rodguy911 (Maga: USA supports Trump. Home of the Free because of the brave.)
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To: smokingfrog

“Could he have fallen down some stairs on purpose?
I’ve 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.


57 posted on 11/17/2018 5:03:22 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: LucyT

..died from “multiple blunt force injuries” and it ruled his death a suicide>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

What did he do, beat himself to death with a pipe?


58 posted on 11/17/2018 7:18:03 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: thinden; All

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/


59 posted on 11/18/2018 4:11:28 AM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: smokingfrog

See My Post 59


60 posted on 11/18/2018 4:14:43 AM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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