Incentives to prescribe and specifically prescribe certain brand names exist in subtle forms of bribery everywhere in health care. Representative DeFazio seeks to solve this with legislation requiring Rx companies to "list both gifts of $25 or more and the physicians who receive them."
I wonder if sponsored seminars, lunches, dinners and sometimes vacations count on that list. Physicians are smart enough to know they're being bought, but once the seed has been planted...