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Monday, June 22, 2009 4:15 PM

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What will be the impact of the health insurance industry's campaign donations and lobbying on members of the Senate? Plenty, according to an analysis by the blog FiveThirtyEight.com.

Directors of corporate political action committees usually say they give money to lawmakers and candidates who have voted in a way that supports their company's economic interests. And sometimes the PACs donate money to candidates because they share political ideology. But does a lawmaker actually vote for a bill that a particular company backs just because they received a PAC check?

Yes, says Nate Silver, who writes FiveThirtyEight.com.  He analyzed the campaign donations of health insurers and health maintenance organizations to Senators and has projected how those lawmakers will vote when it comes to the public plan option under consideration in the health care reform debate. The controversial measure would call on the government to create a new public insurance plan to compete against private insurers.Private insurers are strongly opposed to a public option and progressive groups are pushing hard for it.

"The insurance industry's influence appears to swing about 9 votes against the public option," projects Silver.

Silver says the vote by Sen. Mark Warner D-Va., is the most likely to be influenced by the health insurance lobby. Warner has raised $69,000 in campaign donations from health insurers, though he has only been in office for six months.

Click here to take a look at the analysis.

(Photo of Warner courtesy of Creative Commons)

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Despite the recession, 2009 was a boom year for lobbying overall, with business and advocacy groups shelling out $3.47 billion for lobbyists to represent them on all kinds of issues.Businesses and organizations that lobbied on health reform spent more than $1.2 billion on their overall lobby efforts.I worked for a couple of years for a car insurance Ireland company and I got to say,from an industry perspective, it was money well spent. A close look at the health reform bills that passed the House and Senate show lobbyists were apparently effective at blocking provisions like a robust government-run insurance program, and blunting the effect of cost-cutting measures on health care companies.

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