title: Chipping away at balanced-budget law.
abstract: While no piece of legislation in Washington is every really finished, the lobbying over last year's balanced-budget law is especially fierce. Special-interest groups of every stripe--especially healthcare groups--are working furiously behind the scenes to change what they don't like about the law and keep the parts that benefit their interests.
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authors.lastname: Weissenstein
mesh_terms: D000573:American Hospital Association; D002017:Budgets / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008119:Lobbying; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011050:Policy Making; D014481:United States