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Roll Call reports that big labs – including ones like Quest Diagnostics – are unhappy with a Senate Finance Committee proposal to increase taxes for labs that perform Medicare services. The tax would raise $750 million a year to help pay for health care reform. “Although Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.

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