Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 14/54
Rick
Santorum
U.S. Senate · R-PA
Taken from pharma & insurers
$106,985
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 14/54
Pharma & Health$69,325
Insurers & HMOs$37,660
Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%. · 108-1-459OUTSPENT
Card 14 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
$106,985
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
Then, after office
Joined the board of the hospital company Universal Health Services in 2007.
Source: UHS; CBS News
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$69,325
Merck$24,795
Johnson & Johnson$22,955
Bristol Myers Squibb$6,025
Pfizer$5,350
PhRMA$5,000
Amgen$3,700
Eli Lilly$1,500
Insurers & HMOs$37,660
Cigna$35,460
Aetna$2,000
Anthem/Elevance$200