Ricardo Alonso Zaldivar

March 23, 2012 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - America's national shouting match over health care will only get louder next week as the Supreme Court weighs the fate of President Barack Obama's overhaul.With formal arguments off-limits to cameras, supporters and detractors have laid elaborate plans to compete for the public's attention outside the Supreme Court building.

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

5 minute read

August 17, 2011 | Daily Report Online

A lawyer in Mexico for a leading U.S. drug manufacturer, which promotes its global anticorruption policy, offered to pay an opposing expert in a business lawsuit if he would leave the country on a key court date to undermine the case, according to a recording of the conversation and sworn testimony provided to The Associated Press.

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

6 minute read

March 30, 2012 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The arguments are done and the case has been submitted, as Chief Justice John Roberts says at the end of every Supreme Court argument. Now the justices will wrestle with what to do with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. They have a range of options, from upholding the law to striking it down in its entirety.

By Mark Sherman and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

8 minute read

March 17, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By ALAN FRAM and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

5 minute read

July 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - A strong force, perhaps as powerful in Congress as President Barack Obama, is keeping the drive for health care going even as lawmakers seem hopelessly at odds.Lobbyists.The drug industry, the American Medical Association, hospital groups and the insurance lobby are all saying Congress must make major changes this year.

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

6 minute read

April 23, 2012 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - In a blow to the Obama administration on Medicare, government auditors Monday called for the cancellation of a costly bonus program for private health plans that congressional Republicans have criticized as a wasteful political ploy.The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said it's not clear that the $8.

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

4 minute read

August 19, 2011 | Law.com

According to a recording and sworn testimony provided to The Associated Press, a lawyer in Mexico for drug manufacturer Baxter International offered to pay an opposing expert in a lawsuit if he would leave the country on a key court date. The recording and its disclosure come as the Justice Department and the SEC crack down on misconduct by U.S. companies abroad.

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

7 minute read

July 31, 2008 | Law.com

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation that for the first time would subject the tobacco industry to regulation by federal health authorities charged with promoting public well-being. The bill would further tighten restrictions on tobacco advertising and impose new federal penalties for selling to minors. But its most far-reaching provisions would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco, from cigarettes to new kinds of smokeless products.

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

5 minute read