Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 13/54
Ben
Nelson
U.S. Senate · D-NE
Taken from pharma & insurers
$110,351
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 13/54
Pharma & Health$103,101
Insurers & HMOs$7,250
Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%. · 108-1-459OUTSPENT
Card 13 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
$110,351
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
Then, after office
Led the insurance commissioners' association, then ran a health-insurance brokerage.
Source: Georgetown CHIR; 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$103,101
Amgen$61,100
Johnson & Johnson$21,901
PhRMA$17,000
Pfizer$2,600
Merck$500
Insurers & HMOs$7,250
AHIP$5,000
Cigna$1,000
Humana$1,000
Aetna$250