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In reply to the discussion: Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)33. Here:
As much as you love to sling around what you consider definitive proofs, ProSense, I'm a bit surprised to see that comment.
EVERY health care law offered over the last one hundred years?
EVERY health care law offered over the last one hundred years?
History of health care reform in the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_in_the_United_States
I mean, the law includes something from every plan.
As for Medicaid, Republicans have been trying to kill that ever since it was implemented. Mitt vetoed it in the MA law.
On April 12, 2006, Governor Mitt Romney signed the health legislation. Romney vetoed eight sections of the health care legislation, including the controversial employer assessment. Romney also vetoed provisions providing dental benefits to poor residents on the Medicaid program, and providing health coverage to senior and disabled legal immigrants not eligible for federal Medicaid. The legislature promptly overrode six of the eight gubernatorial section vetoes, on May 4, 2006, and by mid-June 2006 had overridden the remaining two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_reform#Legislation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_reform#Legislation
Note, Republicans also hate the employer mandate. They opposed it in the Clinton health care proposal.
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still_one
Dec 2012
#1
OMG, yes you do. It seems to become more relevant with each passing year. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#26
In partial payment for services rendered to the industry while on the taxpayer payroll.
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Dec 2012
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Dec 2012
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Dec 2012
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