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The pharmaceutical industry is losing one of Capitol Hill's more informed Democratic voices. Democratic lawmaker DeGette has lost her seat, and STAT News's D.C.
Diagnosis newsletter — which covers the politics and policy of health and medicine — describes the outcome as a mixed bag for the drug industry. She understood how the industry worked.
That familiarity, however, did not make her a reliable friend to it. A Critic Who Knew the File Knowledge and friendship are not the same thing.
STAT's reporting characterizes DeGette as knowledgeable about the pharmaceutical industry without being consistently aligned with its interests.
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