Hillary Clinton got almost a million dollars in campaign contributions from the insurance sector. Donald Trump got less than $20,000 .

Obamacare hooked the insurance industry on the federal honeypot, while punishing them with financially untenable regulations. This is how crony capitalism goes nuclear. Political contributions from the industry leaders went up 26% in the last election. We are talking big money.

The insurance industry is number two (after Wall St.) in political contributions. In 2016 they spent one hundred and fifty million dollars on lobbying, and employed 870 lobbyists. Democrats in Congress received 18 million in campaign contributions and Republicans received 30 million. The drug companies, counted separately, donated 30 million to candidates, slightly more going to Republicans.

Insurers also spent 60 million dollars on the seven sets of gubernatorial races in 2016 .

Newsweek reports that

13 Republican senators, including McConnell, on average received $214,000 in contributions from health insurance and pharmaceutical companies from November 2010 to November 2016, money and politics watchdog MapLight found by searching campaign finance reports.

McConnell alone received $433,000 from insurance and drug companies between 2010 and 2016.

According to Opensecrets.org

Over the course of Ryan’s career in Congress, insurance has been the top industry (after retired people) contributing to his campaigns, with $895,928 in contributions since he first campaigned for his House seat, according to OpenSecrets.org data. The Health Professionals and Pharmaceutical industries follow close behind as his fourth and seventh most supportive industries, contributing $626,249 and $350,282, respectively, since 2000.

Eight of Paul Ryan’s top twenty contributors are insurance companies, drug companies and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.

That pretty much explains everything, doesn’t it?

Karin McQuillan is a retired Peace Corps Volunteer, clinical social worker and psychotherapist, and author. She is a frequent American Thinker contributor.