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U.S. medical device backers face tough health care vote

Larry Jacobs discusses Klobuchar's role in the vote to repeal the medical device tax.

"Senator Klobuchar is faced with a difficult choice between voting the kind of narrow particularistic interest of industry in her state versus voting her personal and partisan platform," said Lawrence Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota.

Bloomberg Businessweek
June 6, 2012

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