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Article: Top Insurers Spend Heavily to Influence Debate on Health Care Reform
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Rick Bielke of Public Campaign Action Fund, +1-202-293-
0222 ext. 12, m. +1-202-255-6147
Fourteen health insurance companies and their national front
group spent
$15.5 million in first half of 2009 - more than $2.5 million per
month
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fourteen major
health insurers and their industry association flexed their
political muscle to the tune of $2.5 million per month - an increase
of 25 percent over previous years - in the first half of 2009 to
influence the health care reform debate, according to a report
released today by the nonpartisan group Public Campaign Action Fund.
"These highly profitable corporations are ...