
Top Lobby Spenders in Healthcare
The American Medical Association invested heavily in DC influence in the first two quarters of 2015. PhRMA wasn't far behind. Casey McDonald reports.
The American Medical Association invested heavily in DC influence in the first two quarters of 2015. The AMA dropped $12.4m in the second quarter of 2015, more than it has spent in any single quarter since 2008, according to a
Also on the MapLight top 10 list for 2Q15 lobby spending is Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) which spent $4.8m from May through June. PhRMA’s $10.2m spend so far in 2015 tracks slightly above in 1H14 and 1H13 putting it on track for an up year.
AMA and PhRMA are numbers 5 and 6 on MapLight’s
It doesn’t take too many clicks to find the pharma industry’s
Amgen and Lilly take spots at 43rd and 44th on the
Some other notables:
49 - American Health Insurance Plans
52 - CVS Caremark
57 - Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
59 - Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
63 - Monsanto
66 - Merck
69 - Novartis
74 - Dupont
76 - J&J
81 - Bayer
83 - Sanofi
85 - GlaxoSmithKline
110 - Medtronic
122 - Proctor & Gamble
125 - Genentech
133 - Fresenius Medical Care
138 - Abbott Labs
139 - AstraZeneca
140 - American Cancer Society Action Network
162 - Teva
169 - Aetna
170 - UnitedHealth Group
172 - Bristol-Myers Squibb
178 - Baxter International
180 - Emergent BioSolutions
Accoring to the MapList methodology statement, the analysis of 2Q figures are gleaned from of federal lobbying disclosure filings from the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives between April 1, 2015, and June 30, 2015.
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