Wojtek
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/ny-times-reporter-confirm_b_500999.html
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> "That's a lobbyist for the hospital industry and he's talking about the
> hospital industry's specific deal with the White House and the Senate
> Finance Committee and, yeah, I think the hospital industry's got a deal
> here. There really were only two deals, meaning quid pro quo handshake deals
> on both sides, one with the hospitals and the other with the drug industry.
> And I think what you're interested in is that in the background of these
> deals was the presumption, shared on behalf of the lobbyists on the one side
> and the White House on the other, that the public option was not going to be
> in the final product."
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