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Health Care Reform
Diagnosis: Reform: In this month-long series, OpenSecrets Blog closely examined how special interests are spending money to shape health care reform and minimize harm to their industries. How much are the power brokers in the debate receiving from health-related industries? Who's funding the Blue Dog Democrats' campaigns? Where do the industries come down on a public health care option and how much are they spending to make their voices heard? Answers to theses questions, and more, are here...http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/06/diagnosis-reform.html
Health Care Tools: Because of the popularity of the various tools we provided in "Diagnosis: Reform" to help you track which health-related industries are filling your representatives’ coffers, we decided to put these charts in one easy-to-find place and update them regularly. Use this to investigate the cash flowing from well-heeled special interests within the health industries to your representatives, the committee members with the most power to shape the legislation and the moderate Blue Dog Democrats. You can also use the cheat sheet to examine how much money key industry players are spending to influence the debate...http://www.opensecrets.org/capital_eye/health.php
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