Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 37/54
Kay
Hutchison
U.S. Senate · R-TX
Taken from pharma & insurers
$21,610
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 37/54
Pharma & Health$18,110
Insurers & HMOs$3,500
Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%. · 108-1-459OUTSPENT
Card 37 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
$21,610
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
Then, after office
A former bank general counsel who joined a mobile-payments company's board after the Senate.
Source: PR Newswire
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$18,110
Johnson & Johnson$14,360
Pfizer$2,000
Bristol Myers Squibb$1,000
Merck$500
Amgen$250
Insurers & HMOs$3,500
Cigna$3,500