Lobbyists Fight Efforts to Save on Health Care

New York Times by By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Oct. 11, 2009 (News Analysis)

Most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s vow to curb health care costs have fallen victim to organized interests and parochial politics. Full Story »

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Randy Morrow
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 by Randy Morrow - Oct. 12, 2009

Lobbying by doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, meanwhile, dimmed the prospects of various proposals to cut into their incomes, including allowing government negotiation of Medicare drug prices and creating a government insurer with the muscle to lower fee payments.

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