What a society. Since 1990 we’ve spent the following on lobbying interests.
Health - $866,542,699
Insurance - $324,658,744
Pharmaceuticals / Health Products - $177,030,005
That’s a total of $1,368,231,448 over the course of 19 years.
This is on lobbying alone. There’s also advertising, legal, special interest lobbying regarding abortion or tobacco, state lobbying, media coverage, etc.
Billions of dollars on paper and rhetoric.