Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 17/54
Dianne
Feinstein
U.S. Senate · D-CA
Taken from pharma & insurers
$72,250
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 17/54
Pharma & Health$64,500
Insurers & HMOs$7,750
Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%. · 108-1-459OUTSPENT
Card 17 of 54 · tap the card to see who they work for
Beyond the check
The check is only the part you can see.
They took
$72,250
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
In the family
Her late husband, Richard Blum, was a Wall Street private-equity investor.
Source: Wikipedia; EdSource
The industry figure is lobbying spent on the bill, not a payment to this senator. Source: Public Citizen (2004); Center for Public Integrity. Everything here is documented public record; nothing alleges an illegal act.
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Pharma & Health$64,500
Johnson & Johnson$39,600
Pfizer$9,250
Amgen$8,650
Merck$3,000
PhRMA$3,000
Bristol Myers Squibb$1,000
Insurers & HMOs$7,750
Aetna$4,500
AHIP$2,000
Cigna$1,250