Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 23/54
Elizabeth
Dole
U.S. Senate · R-NC
Taken from pharma & insurers
$41,615
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 23/54
Pharma & Health$39,615
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 23 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
$41,615
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
In the family
Her husband, Bob Dole, was a lobbyist for drug and health-industry clients.
Source: Center for Public Integrity
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$39,615
Johnson & Johnson$29,925
Pfizer$4,300
Merck$4,190
Bristol Myers Squibb$1,200
Insurers & HMOs$2,000
Cigna$2,000