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04/02/2010 8:15 am 0 comments

Source: Fredreka Schouten / USA Today

The next battles over President Obama’s sweeping revamp of the nation’s health care system will be waged in the states — where health care interests are heavily invested.

Six of the 15 attorneys general who have challenged the new law count health care interests among the top five industries giving to their most recent campaigns, according to the non-partisan National Institute on Money in State Politics.

Other examples:

• In 2009, health care companies made up four of the top 10 givers to the Democratic Governors Association and three in the top 10 to the Republican Governors Association. Health interests donated more than $4.2 million to the DGA and $3.9 million to the RGA, which are working to elect 37 governors this fall, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

•Health care companies and their workers spent $116.7 million on state races in 2008, almost as much as the $167.2 million that went to federal races from health care interests.

To read this article in its entirety visit USA Today.

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