Top 10 companies that spent the most on lobbyists in Md.
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No. 1: Maryland Hospital Association
The Maryland Hospital paid out $596,723.99 on lobbying efforts in 2010, seeking to influence policy on issues such as the Medicaid reimbursement rates paid out to the institutions it represents.
Above, Mercy Hospital's new new Mary Catherine Bunting Center is pictured. Data comes from Maryland State Ethics Commission report on lobbying spending, and covers the period from November 1, 2009 through October 31, 2010.  |
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Add / View comments | Discussion FAQThe Mercy ads and Mercy lobbyists, the millionaire Docs and the luxury hotel buildings. A fine result for the Sisters of Mercy. What's next? Slots and wet bars for the patients? Cruises with the superstar docs to the virgin islands or Cancun? I wonder why Obama doesn't touch hospital rates in his wonderful pro-middle class Affordable Health Care Act? Let's ask AHCA boosters Cardin, Mikulski, the union flunkies in the Congress delegation and O'Malley and Brown who want Gold Stars for being the biggest obamacare suck-ups while other states sue to stop the welfare program for rich docs and overpaid hospital execs and building contractors who put up these concrete palaces called hospitals.
How much does the state teachers association and the AFT/BTU spend?
I was noting how small the amounts were until I realized the article seems to be including ONLY lobbying in Annapolis. Wonder what the ratio is of lobbying dollars to state budget? And I wonder what these orgs are spending in DC?
