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What It Means for House Democrats to Adopt the Senate Health Bill

By | 01.20.10 | 6:08 pm

First of all, take all the weeks of merger negotiations and throw them out the window: It’s looking more and more like the only way the Democrats can pass health care reform — and they must pass health care reform — in the wake of yesterday’s election in More…

Big Pharma Showers Home-State Senators With Campaign Cash

By | 09.25.09 | 9:56 am

It came as little surprise when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) yesterday moved  to kill efforts to lower seniors’ drug costs by squeezing Big Pharma. After all, Baucus earlier in the year had agreed to a controversial deal with the drug lobby, under which More…

Health Reform Should Have Broad, Bipartisan Support? Really?

By | 08.20.09 | 1:04 pm

Following up on Dave’s post, Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), the Republican point-man on Senate health reform legislation this year, says he’s still interested in forging a bipartisan health reform deal — so long as the bill can win an overwhelming majority in the upper chamber. More…