Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 36/54
Bill
Frist
U.S. Senate · R-TN
Taken from pharma & insurers
$22,250
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 36/54
Pharma & Health$20,250
Insurers & HMOs$2,000
Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%. · 108-1-459OUTSPENT
Card 36 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
$22,250
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
Then, after office
His family founded HCA, the largest hospital chain in the country. He built a post-Senate career investing in health care.
Source: Fortune; SEC
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$20,250
Johnson & Johnson$15,500
Bristol Myers Squibb$2,500
Pfizer$1,000
Merck$1,000
Eli Lilly$250
Insurers & HMOs$2,000
Cigna$1,250
Aetna$750