Why It’s So Hard! Why It’s So Important to Independents!

The next time someone asks you why being an NCPA member is important, or why supporting NCPAPAC or the LDF is critical to your business margins, or why it is so hard to get Congress to make our legislation a priority in the face of competing interests, you can cite the info in this article:

• Health care interests spend more on federal lobbying ($445 million) than any other sector of the economy ($2.8 B total in 2007).
• In terms of specific organizations or companies, the number three spender was PhRMA (tied with AMA at $22.1 million). Number one was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which paid its in-house and outside lobbyists $53 million.