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Health Insurance Industry Gives Big to Key Players in Congress

July 21, 2009 - by Donny Shaw

Of the five Committees in Congress with jurisdiction over health care reform legislation right now, only one, the Senate Finance Committee, is proposing the scrap the Obama-supported "public option" entirely. That committee is chaired by Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT], the man at the center of this piece from Dan Eggen on the health industry's effort to quash reform through campaign contributions:

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