Interest groups battle to deflect health taxes /AP Wire
By CHARLES BABINGTON
WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance companies, unions, medical device makers and others in the health care industry are furiously lobbying lawmakers to shift burdens onto someone else – anyone else – before they find themselves saddled with billions of dollars in taxes under new health care legislation.
Their gain would be another industry’s loss, of course, unless the entire overhaul effort collapses and Congress fails to agree on how to pay to provide health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans.
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