How independent are they?

The Boston Globe lists several prominent Senators who have financial ties to the medical industry, primarily drug companies. Dodd, who is spearheading the bill, has a wife who is on the board of four companies from which she earned $350,000 in cash and stock last year. But there are more - Hatch, Rockefeller, Harkin, Coburn, Kyl, Gregg - who have invested in companies that will be affected by what these senators do.

And we can't ignore Baucus, the Chair of the Finance Committee, and his cohorts. In his campaign last year he was able to raise $1,826,652 from health care organizations. In all, members of the Finance Committee received $13,000,000 for their campaigns from health care organizations.

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