Wasted premium dollars.....1.4 million a day on lobbying

This is appalling. Especially when you stop to think of it this way: the greedy profit mark-ups on prescription drugs is going towards PhARMA's campaign against meaningful reform. Our medicine cabinets are funding their anti reform war machine. Medicare Part D is another example of dirty money at work...my understanding is that it actually prohibits the government from using it's purchasing power to negotiate lower prices, (bulk rates), on prescription medications. We definitely need campaign finance reform so we can put an end to this legalized form of bribery that results in corporate benefit legislation being passed at the expense of the rest of us.

everyone has lobbyist. What about all the union dues that are sepnt on lobbyists and campaign advertising it runs in the hundreds of millions. What about the pure profit hospitals make by marking up drugs given to patients by serveral hundred percent. Do you have a problem with nursing organizations utilizing lobbyists?

But people who belong to unions and professional organizations choose to pay dues knowing that some of that money will be used to lobby, and the lobbying is at least ostensibly promoting the members' interests (although I recognize some may quibble about that). The insurance companies use premium money to lobby against the interests of the general public that is paying them the premiums.