"Senator Kennedy and the rest of the Massachusetts delegation did a great job of getting hospitals relief. It was very much an uphill battle, and they won that battle," Watson said.
According to a staff member on Kennedy's health committee, funding for Medicare and teaching hospitals are among his top priorities.
Top officials at Partners, as well as the individual teaching hospitals, were also personally involved with lobbying.
Early this year, Samuel O. Thier, CEO of Partners, traveled to Washington to lobby members of Congress and of the Clinton Administration.
"He was one of the first heads of the teaching hospitals to be making the case that the Balanced Budget Act had gone too far and that the teaching hospitals were at risk," Watson says.
Funding Increased, But Still Lower
The new act will restore about 10 percent of the lost funding at teaching hospitals nationwide.
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