{"id":11236,"date":"2009-07-27T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=11236"},"modified":"2012-10-19T01:31:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:31:47","slug":"phamaceutical-company-lobbying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/27\/phamaceutical-company-lobbying\/","title":{"rendered":"Phamaceutical Company Lobbying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Obama adminstration presses for health care reform and members of congress are deciding the fate of the American people, pharmaceutical companies do more than just watch. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2009\/07\/what_do_big_pharmas_deep_pocke.html?ft=1&amp;f=103537970\" target=\"_blank\">According to NPR<\/a>, in the last three months (THREE), they have spent $6.15 million dollars lobbying congress.\u00a0 To show which companies are spending what, NPR has put together an interactive graphic.\u00a0 It also allows you to view lobbying reports for each firm.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/news\/graphics\/2009\/jul\/drug-lobbying\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>to learn more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Obama adminstration presses for health care reform and members of congress are deciding the fate of the American people, pharmaceutical companies do more than just watch. According to NPR, in the last three months (THREE), they have spent $6.15 million dollars lobbying congress.\u00a0 To show which companies are spending what, NPR has put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,85],"class_list":["post-11236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-healthmedicine","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51985,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions\/51985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}