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Obamacare's 'Chief Operating Officer' Jumps Over To Pharmaceutical Industry

Obamacare's 'Chief Operating Officer' Jumps Over To Pharmaceutical Industry
Maxwell Strachan
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Senior Reporter, HuffPost

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 03: U.S. President Barack Obama leaves after he addressed the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) symposium December 3, 2012 at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. Obama spoke on the 20th anniversary of the CTR program which was established to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and their associated infrastructure in former Soviet Union states.' Obama also warned President Assad of Syria not to use chemical weapons against his people. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 03: U.S. President Barack Obama leaves after he addressed the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) symposium December 3, 2012 at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. Obama spoke on the 20th anniversary of the CTR program which was established to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and their associated infrastructure in former Soviet Union states.' Obama also warned President Assad of Syria not to use chemical weapons against his people. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

When the legislation that became known as "Obamacare" was first drafted, the key legislator was the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, whose committee took the lead in drafting the legislation. As Baucus himself repeatedly boasted, the architect of that legislation was Elizabeth Folwer, his chief health policy counsel; indeed, as Marcy Wheeler discovered, it was Fowler who actually drafted it. As Politico put it at the time: "If you drew an organizational chart of major players in the Senate health care negotiations, Fowler would be the chief operating officer."

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