Lewin Group's Parent Company Donated Big To Gop Leaders

House Republican Leaders John Boehner (Ohio) and Eric Cantor (Va.) have taken roughly $60,000 from the health insurance company that owns the research firm the Lewin Group, regularly cited by opponents of health care reform, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Cantor, meanwhile, recently urged his Republican colleagues, at the top of a summer-strategy memo, to refer voters to an "[i]ndependent analysis by the Lewin Group" that makes that case that giving Americans a public health care option would cause more than 100 million people to lose their current coverage. The analysis, as Democrats point out, does not look at any of the current health care bills that have moved through congressional committees so far and comes up with a much higher estimate for lost coverage than the Congressional Budget Office has produced. And with the once-prestigious research firm owned since 2007 by UnitedHealth Group, a major health insurer, it becomes that much easier to cast doubt on its analysis. Boehner and his leadership PAC have taken in $29,125 and Cantor and his PAC have gotten $28,000 from UnitedHealth's political action committee, not including what they've also gotten from the company's executives and employees. Michael Steel, a spokesman for Minority Leader Boehner, dismissed the notion that the contributions from the Lewin Group's owner undermine its reliability.

 

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