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Published at www.nejm.org November 18, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMp0910879)

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With health care reform in the air, interest groups are spending huge sums of money to influence the final legislation and other matters pending in Washington. Since 2006, the health sector has spent $1.7 billion lobbying Congress and federal agencies — more money than any other sector of the economy. Between January and September 2009, health care interests spent $396.2 million (see Figure 1), according to federal data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org), a nonpartisan organization that researches the influence of money on politics.

View larger version (34K):   Figure 1. Top-Spending Sectors and Organizations Lobbying Congress and Federal Agencies, January . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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Dr. Steinbrook (rsteinbrook@attglobal.net) is a national correspondent for the Journal.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0910879) was published on November 18, 2009, at NEJM.org.

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