Off Topic: Pharma Funded 2,400 State Lawmakers' Campaigns in 2020

Pharma Funded 2,400+ State Lawmakers' Campaigns in 2020 Mercola

• "For example, one yearlong analysis by the Sunlight Foundation2 found that for every dollar spent influencing politicians, corporations received $760 from the government. This is a 76,000% return on their investment. The Sunlight Foundation examined 14 million records to reach this result."

• "Documentation showed
  84.4% of lawmakers in Louisiana,
  81.7% in California and
  76.3% in Illinois had accepted and cashed a check from the pharmaceutical industry"

• "STAT found that the Pfizer drug company used its PAC to write 1,048 checks in 43 states to lawmakers and candidates"

See also VitaminDWiki

• More than half of the FDA entire budget now comes from Big Pharma, not the govt. – Sept 2018

• The disinformation playbook problems of US healthcare – Grant 2025, 2017

• Extremely Big Pharma - many studies

  • of the top 500 US companies "10 Pharmaceutical companies combined made more than the other 490 companies"

  • 760X return on investment for lobbying congress Propublica Dec 2014