#Healthcare
Events indexed under #Healthcare — 115 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-09-30 | Merck Withdraws Vioxx After Concealing Heart Attack Risk, FDA Failure Causes Estimated 28,000-55,000 Deaths Merck · Food and Drug Administration · David Graham · Raymond Gilmartin | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Bush Administration Hides 39B Medicare Part D Cost from Congress Thomas Scully · Richard Foster · George W. Bush · Charles Rangel · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Medicare Part D Passes After Pharmaceutical Industry Writes Price Negotiation Ban Billy Tauzin · House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Medicare | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-26 | HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | Insulin Prices Begin Tripling 2002-2013 as Three Manufacturers Control 99% of Market - From $231 to $762 Annually Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · Congressional Diabetes Caucus · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-06-29 | Patients Bill of Rights Dies After HMO Industry Spends $60 Million Lobbying Against Managed Care Accountability George W. Bush · Health Insurance Association of America · American Association of Health Plans · John McCain · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-11-21 | FDA Modernization Act Accelerates Drug Approvals and Expands Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Under Pharma Pressure Bill Clinton · PhRMA · Food and Drug Administration · James Jeffords | confirmed | |
| 1996-08-21 | HIPAA Passes with Limited Portability Protections While Granting Healthcare Industry Control Over Patient Data Bill Clinton · Nancy Kassebaum · Edward Kennedy · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-26 | Clinton Healthcare Reform Dies After Insurance Industry Lobbying Campaign Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Health insurance industry · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1986-04-07 | EMTALA Passes as Unfunded Mandate, Enabling Insurance Industry to Shift Emergency Care Costs to Hospitals Ronald Reagan · American Hospital Association · Health Insurance Association of America · Pete Stark | confirmed | |
| 1984-09-24 | Hatch-Waxman Act Grants Pharma Patent Extensions While Creating Loopholes to Block Generics Orrin Hatch · Henry Waxman · Ronald Reagan · PhRMA | confirmed | |
| 1983-04-20 | Medicare Adopts DRG Prospective Payment System Creating Hospital Profit Incentives for Reduced Care Ronald Reagan · Richard Schweiker · American Hospital Association · Federation of American Hospitals | confirmed | |
| 1965-07-30 | Medicare and Medicaid Signed Into Law After Defeating Decades of AMA Opposition and Reagan Propaganda Campaign President Lyndon B. Johnson · President Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1962-02-13 | King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying Cecil R. King · Clinton Anderson · John F. Kennedy · Wilbur Mills · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1945-11-19 | Truman Proposes National Health Insurance, AMA Mobilizes Unprecedented Opposition Campaign Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Morris Fishbein · Robert Taft · +1 | confirmed |