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Health Care Lobbyists

Counterfeit 'Public Option' Holds Americans Hostage to Inflationary Private Insurance Costs

Michele Swenson | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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Michele Swenson

Democratic leaders have short-circuited the reform "debate" and permitted the process to be hijacked by health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

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Dem. Rep.: "The Lobbyists Are Winning" On Health Care Reform

nytimes.com | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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Lobbying by doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, meanwhile, dimmed the prospects of various proposals to cut into their incomes, includ...

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Jason Linkins

Stephen Colbert Takes Aim At Relationship Between Legislators, Health Care Lobbyists (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2009 | Comedy

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On last night's The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert took aim at the way the health care reform bill has been impacted by lobbyists -- which is to...

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The Beginning Of The End For The Public Option

Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Video, Issue Ads, Health Care Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Lobbyblog, Politics News

Today, the Senate Finance Committee rebuffed two amendments to include the public option in its health care reform bill. The first amendment, offered ...

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Dem Sen. Blanche Lincoln Rakes In Health Care Dollars

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

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As the summer of the Democrats� discontent winds to a close, the head count for health care reform in the Senate begins in earnest. One of the key D...

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Blue Dogs Rolling In Health Industry Money

McClatchy | Halimah Abdullah | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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As the Obama administration and Democrats wrangled over the timing, shape and cost of health care overhaul efforts during the first half of the year, ...

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Is Health Care Reform About to Go the Way of No Child Left Behind?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Preventative Healthcare, Health Care Lobbyists, Public Option, Prevention, Phrma, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Obama Drug Lobbyists, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Wellness, Obama PhRMA, PhRMA Lobby, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

The White House may be willing to cave on drug price negotiations and having a public option. Giving us health care reform without those key ingredients is like serving a PBJ sandwich without the peanut butter or the jelly.

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Susan Axelrod and Joe Biden Should Register as Heath Care Lobbyists

Stanton Peele | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living

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Stanton Peele

Where does the President get off favoring his close friends' preferences for such allocations, and where do they get off lobbying him?

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Jason Linkins

Tauzin's Pharma Lobbying Efforts "Blessed" By White House

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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In today's Los Angeles Times Tom Hamburger reports on the extent to which former Louisiana Congressman Billy Tauzin has managed to integrate himself, ...

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Hundreds Of Former Lawmakers And Congressional Staffers Hired To Lobby On Health Care

Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Kimberly Kindy | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics

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The nation's largest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress i...

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