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#Healthcare

Events indexed under #Healthcare — 115 entries in the record.

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DateEventLanesStatus
2004-09-30Merck 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
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2003-11-25Bush Administration Hides 39B Medicare Part D Cost from Congress
Thomas Scully · Richard Foster · George W. Bush · Charles Rangel · +1
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2003-11-25Medicare Part D Passes After Pharmaceutical Industry Writes Price Negotiation Ban
Billy Tauzin · House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Medicare
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2003-06-26HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History
HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice
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2002-01-01Insulin 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
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2001-06-29Patients 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
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1997-11-21FDA Modernization Act Accelerates Drug Approvals and Expands Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Under Pharma Pressure
Bill Clinton · PhRMA · Food and Drug Administration · James Jeffords
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1996-08-21HIPAA 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
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1994-09-26Clinton Healthcare Reform Dies After Insurance Industry Lobbying Campaign
Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Health insurance industry · Health Insurance Association of America · +1
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1986-04-07EMTALA 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
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1984-09-24Hatch-Waxman Act Grants Pharma Patent Extensions While Creating Loopholes to Block Generics
Orrin Hatch · Henry Waxman · Ronald Reagan · PhRMA
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1983-04-20Medicare Adopts DRG Prospective Payment System Creating Hospital Profit Incentives for Reduced Care
Ronald Reagan · Richard Schweiker · American Hospital Association · Federation of American Hospitals
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1965-07-30Medicare 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
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1962-02-13King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying
Cecil R. King · Clinton Anderson · John F. Kennedy · Wilbur Mills · +5
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1945-11-19Truman Proposes National Health Insurance, AMA Mobilizes Unprecedented Opposition Campaign
Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Morris Fishbein · Robert Taft · +1
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