Nate Silver: On Health Care, Who's Hooked on Special Interest Money?

[Turborama]

(From June but just as valid today, if not more so)

Based on data collected from http://opensecrets.org">OpenSecrets.org, I've tallied the amount of contributions that each of the 99 current senators have received from Political Action Committees -- PACs -- from the health care industry since 1989. This includes PACs associated with pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, HMOs, health services companies, medical supply companies and physicians', dentists' and nurses' groups. It does not include any money collected from individual contributors -- only money collected from PACs.

For comparison, we've provided the overall amount of federal campaign funds each Senator has collected over the same period from all sources -- including PACs, individual contributions, and self-financing. The senators are ranked by the percentage of their overall bankrolls that they've received from health industry PACs; the top 10 follows below. We've also listed each senator's http://standwithdrdean.com/where_congress_stands">position on the http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/health_care_reform_for_beginne_3.html">public option -- a government-run health care policy that would be established to compete with private policies -- which vigorously supported by progressives and many health care wonks but is generally opposed by industry groups.




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[TexasObserver]

1. Recommend

[tnlurker]

2. 38 Yes, 21 ???

59 Total Senators are either Yes or ??? WE need at least 12 ??? to turn to Yes.

[Lifelong Protester]

3. good information

I appreciate all of you folks out there who find this stuff and post here for those of us who 'one stop shop' for our information.

[ihavenobias]

4. K & R n/t