Health-care industry lobbies Congress over reform
The nation’s largest insurers, hospitals, and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staffers and retired members of Congress to help them shape health-care reform legislation. The hirings are part of a record-breaking influence campaign by the health-care industry, which is spending more than $1.4 million a day on lobbying.
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