Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 07/54
Richard
Lugar
U.S. Senate · R-IN
Taken from pharma & insurers
$176,580
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 07/54
Pharma & Health$164,080
Insurers & HMOs$12,500
Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%. · 108-1-459OUTSPENT
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Beyond the check
The check is only the part you can see.
They took
$176,580
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
After office
We checked the public record. No industry job, board seat, or gift after this vote.
Sometimes the vote really is free.
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$164,080
Eli Lilly$118,980
Johnson & Johnson$37,850
Pfizer$4,500
Bristol Myers Squibb$2,750
Insurers & HMOs$12,500
Anthem/Elevance$9,500
Cigna$2,000
Centene$1,000