cnn.com - 10/15/2009
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Lobbyists are hitting the Capitol to schmooze lawmakers.
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Funds Spent This Year By The Health Care Lobby Would Have Insured All Those Who Died From Lack of Insurance
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... In an article at CNN.com, we learn how much money is being spent in an attempt to prevent real health care reform: ...
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... go into overdrive. "It is sort of a Super Bowl of lobbying for health care reform. The lobbyists are winning so far. But the game's not over yet," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tennessee. As lawmakers work to come up with a plan that can make it to President Obama's desk, industries and interests close to the issue are digging deeper into their pockets to sway public opinion and those in office. The insurance industry launched its first air attack with an ad aimed at seniors. Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/15/health.care.lobb...
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This section of a post at "the Seminal" by Jim White is so good and so profound I'm just going to past it all: In an article at CNN.com, we learn how much money is being spent in an attempt to prevent real health care reform: ...
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Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) has been a passionate, and often blunt, voice for health-care reform for nearly four decades, starting when, as a young Vista volunteer, he took children to the dentist in the rural hills of Appalachia. A scion of ...
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