Meanwhile, business interests were coalescing around political action to rollback environmental and workplace safety regulations. The American Medical Association, fighting legislation that ultimately formed Medicare and Medicaid, created PAC in 1961 to raise money for candidates who opposed programs like these. Copying that example, board members from the National Association of Manufacturers started the first corporate PAC, the Business-Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC) in 1963. 8/
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