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Health Insurance and Pharma Lobbyists Max Out to the Dem Party …

Lisa Kountoupes, a principal of D.C. lobbying firm Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, lobbied for AHIP throughout 2021 on health care topics including provisions on Medicare expansion in the CARES Act, and in the third quarter, on “Issues related to Medicare … See more

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Schumer Took a $66k Bundle of Checks From the Health Insurance …

WEBDonald Shaw. Nov 23, 2021 3 min. The bundle was given as the health insurance industry was lobbying against Medicare dental, vision, and hearing coverage being included in …

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How to Pay For Medicare for All Without Raising Taxes: Cut the

WEBMedicare for All yields net savings for 90-95% of taxpayers. The U.S. system is already privately spending well over a trillion dollars annually on health care costs. …

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Biden’s Big Pharma Pick for FDA Could Squeak Through With

WEBBiden’s Big Pharma Pick for FDA Could Squeak Through With Help From Pharma-Funded Republicans. Donald Shaw. Jan 6, 2022 6 min. Four Republicans with …

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More and More Medicare Money is Flowing to Private Equity

WEBRecent academic studies have found that private equity investment is rushing in to for-profit healthcare companies, but patients may not benefit.

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CBO Health Panel Packed With Experts Tied to Anti-Medicare For …

WEBThe 19-member panel that advises the Congressional Budget Office on health policy is flush with health insurance, pharmaceutical, and hospital interests.

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Neal Took Big Bucks From Lobbyists While Killing a Surprise

WEBRep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) received $54,000 from lobbyists for private equity and pharmaceutical interests that opposed a bipartisan surprise medical billing …

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As He Attacks Medicare for All, Mayor Pete Gets Campaign Cash …

WEBA Sludge review of Buttigieg’s recent third-quarter campaign finance report shows that as he rails against Medicare for All, executives and other managers in the …

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Health Care and Hedge Fund Execs Fundraise for Gottheimer as

WEBRep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) is the unofficial leader of a bloc of conservative Democrats opposing the up to $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package.

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New Health Subcommittee Chair Has Taken More Pharmaceutical …

WEBEshoo has also sponsored pharmaceuticals industry-backed legislation to protect a program under which drug companies pay fees to the Food and Drug …

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Top Democratic Consultants Work for Anti–Medicare for All

WEBThe industry-led Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, which has assailed Democratic presidential candidates’ reform plans, is drawing on Democratic …

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Richard Neal Tells Colleagues Not to Say ‘Medicare for All’ After

WEBNeal’s recent contributors include multiple companies represented in anti-Medicare for All lobbying group the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future.

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Tom Perez Put Corporate Lobbyists in Charge of the DNC’s Budget

WEBMar 26, 2020 11 min. Six of the ten members of the DNC Budget and Finance Committee are at-large, put forward by Chair Tom Perez, and several are lobbyists or investment …

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public financing – Sludge

WEBDemocracy Primary category in which blog post is published Maine’s Biggest City to Vote on Clean Elections Measure. David Moore; The measure in Portland would …

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‘Medicare for All’ Skeptic Richard Neal Can Block Progressive …

WEBNeal has taken millions from the health care industry, and now it's time to deliver. WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 13: Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), speaks during a …

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Health Industry Lawyers and Lobbyists Seem to Really Like

WEBLate last year, Bennet’s Senate campaign filed a report revealing that corporate lobbyist Jonathan Mantz had gathered $28,000 worth of donations for Bennet. …

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Delaney Super PAC's Biggest Donor is Wife of Former Health

WEBThe biggest donor to a pro-Delaney super PAC, The Right Answer Committee, is philanthropist Katherine Bradley, whose husband, David, founded The …

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NY Candidate and Pharma Heir Faces Questions on Drug Pricing

WEBJun 12, 2020 12 min. After months of questions from local activists, Adam Schleifer, running in the NY-17 Democratic primary, tells Sludge he supports a Senate bill that sets price …

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Massachusetts’ Top Health Official Has Major Conflicts of

WEBMassachusetts’ Top Health Official Has Major Conflicts of Interest With Big Pharma. Donald Shaw. Mar 5, 2020 5 min. As she votes on regulations impacting the …

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Biden’s Million-Dollar Inaugural Donors Lobbied Against His

WEBU.S. Chamber Leads the Campaign. AT&T and Comcast each donated $1 million to the Biden inaugural, and Verizon gave at least $100,000. The telecom giants …

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