Beverly Perdue has received $98,500 from health care-related PACs.
Political action committees representing drug companies, health care providers, insurance companies and industry associations were the single largest group of PAC donors to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, according to campaign finance reports.
They made up about a fourth of the $376,293 she raised from PACs since her re-election in 2004. Other politicians' campaign committees were a close second, contributing $91,933, with about a third of that coming from other Democratic senators.
The biggest donors were the N.C. Hospital Association and the NP PAC, which represents nurse practitioners. Both gave $8,000. PACs for the Asheville Anesthesia Associates and the Association for Home and Hospice Care of N.C. gave $5,000 apiece.
Drug companies whose PACs donated included GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Roche, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Wyeth, Pfizer and Abbott Labs. Pharmacy chains such as Kerr Drug, pharmacist managers Medco Health and Caremark and the PILL PAC, which represents pharmacists, also gave.
Perdue also received money from trade groups: The N.C. Medical Society, the N.C. Health Care Facilities Association, the N.C. Association of Nurse Anesthetists, the N.C. Assisted Living Association, the N.C. Association of Long Term Care Facilities and the N.C. Orthopaedic PAC.
Perdue previously worked at a hospital and has made health care one of the signature issues in her campaign.
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Re: Perdue receives $98k from health PACs
I'm in a health care field, but not at the level these folks are. In the past they have used old, former Governor's like Jim Martin to do their bidding. These folks managed to get old, ex state Senator's like F. Odom on the Board and get relatives in strategic offices like head of NC Dept of HHS. Then they could pursue and play their Certificate of Need games in building Hospital Systems larger and larger. Remember the Medicare coding
deal gone bad and the the threat NC would have to reimburse the Feds? It's been a largely Republican endeavor, but they cover their bets by donating to folks like Tony Rand and Bev Perdue, just in case.
It's politics as usual.