More than half of the top richest US lobbys are Health related

Created February 2013

Open Secrets dot Org 1998-2012

||Lobbying Client| Total

US Chamber of Commerce |$941,835,680

General Electric| $284,040,000

American Medical Assn| $281,282,500

American Hospital Assn| $235,149,136

Pharmaceutical Rsrch & Mfrs of America |$232,583,920

AARP |$222,822,064

National Assn of Realtors| $219,817,423

Blue Cross/Blue Shield |$202,740,052 ||

A person had made a comment on the web that AMA did a lot of lobbying.

He was correct. The AMA is the third largest lobbying group in the US

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  • Time Magazine article on cost of health care Feb 2013'
    • According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the pharmaceutical and health-care-product industries, combined with organizations representing doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, health services and HMOs, have spent $5.36 billion since 1998 on lobbying in Washington.
    • That dwarfs the $1.53 billion spent by the defense and aerospace industries over the same period.