Max Baucus - Health Industry Contributions

Source: Sunlight Foundation

Many of these contributions were filed with his committee in the days soon after other fundraising weekends in the mountains of Montana. Over the weekend of February 6, Baucus hosted his Eigth Annual Ski and Snow Mobile Weekend, a fundraising weekend get-away much like the July 31-Aug 2 event that Baucus skipped. Contributions that were filed on February 16 include four health care PACs and two lobbyists for health care companies. The PACs included National Emergency Medicine PAC, Sanofi-Pasteur, American College of Cardiology and American College of Radiology Association. Three out of these four PACs contributed the maximum $5,000 with Sanofi-Pasteur contributing $2,500. The lobbyists included Tracy Spicer (Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Bravo Health, Healthcare Leadership Council, Heritage Services, Medco, National Health Policy Group, Travelers Companies, UnitedHealth Group) and William Oldaker (Adventist Health Systems, Healthcare Quality Strategies, Intermountain Health Care, Iowa Foundation for Medical Care, IPRO, Lumetra, Mpro, Ohio KePRO, Parexel International, TMF Health Quality Institute, West Virginia Medical Institute).

Contributors to Sen. Baucus’ Glacier PAC also include some of his former staffers now lobbying for health care organizations. These include former chief of staff David Castagnetti ($3,000), Nick Giordano ($1,000) and Roger Blauwet ($2,500). Castagnetti represents a wide array of health care companies including America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), American College of Cardiologists, Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Proctor & Gamble and Merck. Blauwet represents Merck, Wyeth, Rx Benefits Coalition and the Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers. Giordano is listed in reports as representing Covidien, Health Care Service Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, McKesson Corporation, Milliman Care Guidelines and the National Association of Public Hospitals. Many of these organizations have also made PAC contributions to the senator’s Glacier PAC.


Glacier PAC Contributions 2009 (Health and Insurance PACs and Lobbyists):
PACs
$5,000.00 - - 01/05/09 - - American Society of Anesthesiologists
$5,000.00 - - 02/16/09 - - National Emergency Medicine
$2,500.00 - - 02/16/09 - - Sanofi-Pasteur
$5,000.00 - - 02/16/09 - - American College of Cardiology
$5,000.00 - - 02/16/09 - - American College of Radiology Association
$5,000.00 - - 03/09/09 - - Pacific Pulmonary Services
$5,000.00 - - 03/20/09 - - Merck
$5,000.00 - - 03/31/09 - - Boston Scientific Corp
$5,000.00 - - 04/27/09 - - American Podiatric Medical Association
$5,000.00 - - 04/27/09 - - College of American Pathologists
$1,000.00 - - 05/01/09 - - American Dental PAC
$2,500.00 - - 05/08/09 - - Medtronic
$5,000.00 - - 05/08/09 - - Schering-Plough
$2,500.00 - - 05/08/09 - - American Chiropractic Association
$5,000.00 - - 05/11/09 - - Aetna
$5,000.00 - - 06/04/09 - - Torchmark
$5,000.00 - - 06/30/09 - - Independent Insurance Agents of America

Lobbyists
$2,000.00 - - 02/16/09 - - Tracy Spicer
$5,000.00 - - 02/16/09 - - William Oldaker
$1,000.00 - - 03/09/09 - - Jonathan Slade
$2,000.00 - - 03/09/09 - - David Jory
$1,000.00 - - 03/09/09 - - J Curtis Rich
$3,000.00 - - 03/31/09 - - David Castagnetti
$5,000.00 - - 05/08/09 - - Eric Hanson
$1,000.00 - - 05/18/09 - - Billy Wynne
$1,000.00 - - 05/26/09 - - Nick Giordano
$2,500.00 - - 06/04/09 - - Roger Blauwet
$1,500.00 - - 06/30/09 - - Geoffrey Peterson
$1,000.00 - - 06/30/09 - - Nance Guenther-Peterson

Make that $10 million thanks to the "health" industry.