Health care industries on a spending spree to stop Health care reform

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/health-care-reform/2009/10/health-care_lobbyists_continue.html
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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drugmakers' main trade group, shattered records again by spending nearly $7 million on lobbying from July through September, the quarterly disclosure records show. The outlay brings PhRMA's total so far this year to nearly $20 million, just shy of the group's entire lobbying budget for 2008.

Other big health-care spenders in the third quarter included Pfizer Inc. ($5.42 million); the American Hospital Association ($3.8 million); the American Medical Association ($3.95 million); Amgen Inc. ($3 million); Bayer Corp. ($2.45 million); and America's Health Insurance Plans ($2.4 million).

Many of Washington's broader interest groups have also ramped up their lobbying efforts. The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is at loggerheads with President Obama on health care, climate change and other key issues, spent a stunning $35 million on lobbying in the third quarter, more than double what it spent during the earlier part of the year.

The seniors group AARP, meanwhile, which has aligned itself with Democrats on health-care reform, spent $15 million on lobbying from January through September.

insurance companies and pharmas make their money?

Keep those babies coming with no paid maternity leave for mothers.

they don't understand that being 'nice' is how you get what you want in this town.

if they had channeled that money into actually SAVING LIVES?
How many people could have had a needed dentist visit or mammogram or hospital stay?
How many children could have had tests or wheelchairs or artificial limbs or life-saving surgery?

I wish all that is evil for these criminals.