Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 02/54
John
Warner
U.S. Senate · R-VA
Taken from pharma & insurers
$296,289
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 02/54
Pharma & Health$184,479
Insurers & HMOs$111,810
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
$296,289
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
Before the Senate
Practiced banking law and married into the Mellon banking family.
Source: Encyclopedia Virginia
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$184,479
Johnson & Johnson$133,029
Eli Lilly$20,500
PhRMA$12,000
Pfizer$8,950
Merck$5,500
Amgen$3,250
Bristol Myers Squibb$1,250
Insurers & HMOs$111,810
Aetna$64,600
Humana$17,250
AHIP$15,500
CVS Health$5,900
Anthem/Elevance$3,060
UnitedHealth$2,500
Cigna$2,500
Centene$500