The share of money heading towards lobbying activities on Capitol Hill is increasingly coming from healthcare companies. The number of dollars spent on healthcare lobbying grew by more than 70 percent between 2000 and 2020.
The figures were recently published in new research in JAMA Health Forum after researchers performed a cross-sectional study to shine some light on a topic that they say was for years under-examined.
The study, “Lobbying Expenditures in the US Health Care Sector, 2000-2020,” found that over the 20 years the researchers extracted data from healthcare lobbying dollars spent rose from $358.2 million in 2000 to $713.6 million in 2020.
“There’s a lot that goes on with lobbying, it’s not just about money, but it’s almost never not about money too,” said Dr. Peter Ubel, a medical doctor and the Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor of Business, Public Policy and Medicine at Duke University in an interview with The Epoch Times….