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Stuart Taylor: Obamacare’s Slush Fund Fuels A Broader Lobbying Controversy

POSTED BY Galen Institute on May 30, 2013.

A little-noticed part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act channels some $12.5 billion into a vaguely defined “Prevention and Public Health Fund” over the next decade–and some of that money is going for everything from massage therapists who offer “calming techniques,” to groups advocating higher state and local taxes on tobacco and soda, and stricter zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants.

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