Health Care Lobbyists

One year after passage, health care reform continues to generate lobbying and legal fees

The Sunlight Foundation | Posted 05.25.2011

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One year ago today, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The legislative process that led to the bill's en...

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Eight Health Care Lobbyists For Each Member Of Congress

Center for Public Integrity | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Center for Public Integrity analysis of Senate lobbying disclosure forms shows that more than 1,750 companies and organizations hired about 4,525 lo...

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Health Care Industry Is Now Reform's Only Hope, Which Is Sure To End Well

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that Scott Brown is on his way to the U.S. Senate, the press is wondering if health care reform is alive, dead, or shambling ever-forward like som...

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

nytimes.com | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Daschle Had Public And Private Role In Push For Digital Health Records

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the government's campaign to bring medical care into the digital age, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has served as a key advisor to Pres...

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Critics Of Health Reform On Obama's Left Have Largely Focused On Symbolic Issues

National Journal Magazine | Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009 | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the Senate's passage Thursday morning of sweeping health care reform, President Obama took another giant step toward the biggest legislative achi...

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

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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How Health Lobbyists Influenced Reform Bill

chicagotribune.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Nexon had a big problem. An early version of national health care legislation contained a $40 billion tax aimed squarely at members of the medic...

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 11.17.2011

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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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