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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Congress’s Healthcare Movers Rake in Contributions


“As the debate intensifies in Congress, health care sector contributions to lawmakers on the committees overseeing the massive change to the nation’s health care system are on the upswing—rising 8% between the first and second quarter of the year, according to data compiled by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.” (USA Today, Wednesday)

Money flows to power.

FEE Timely Classic
“High Plains Drifters: Politicians’ Lucrative Protection Racket” by Fred S. McChesney


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.