Nov 18 2010
Reporting for
Kaiser Health News, in collaboration with
Politico, Bara Vaida and Christopher Weaver write: "Health-sector PACs - ranging from doctors to hospitals to drug companies - generally favored Democrats. Of the $42 million that 122 health sector PACs gave to congressional candidates this cycle, 58 percent went to Democrats and 41 percent to Republicans, according to the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics" (Vaida and Weaver, 11/17).
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