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Wed, 18 Aug 2004

American Progress Action Fund:

$163 MILLION AND COUNTING: Public Campaign, a nonpartisan research/advocacy group, today is releasing a new report (pdf) showing how health care special interests have made more than $163 million in political donations to Congress and presidential candidates since 1999. The contributions come from health insurers and HMOs, prescription drug manufacturers, meat and food processing companies, and the tobacco industry. As the report notes, the Bush administration "is particularly beholden to health-care special interests and has been instrumental in rewarding these sponsors with policy paybacks." Fifty-one Bush Pioneers and Rangers (those who have raised at least $100,000 or $200,000, respectively, for the president's campaigns) are employed by the health care industry. The report compares how members of Congress voted on key health care-related legislation with how much they received from health care interests. See the full report (pdf).

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