Kansas City News Blog

​So far, in our August-recess series of reports on local politicians' campaign contributions from the medical industry, we've counted up contributions to Sen. Pat Roberts and Rep. Dennis Moore of Kansas and Rep. Sam Graves from Missouri. We couldn't let Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill's week of difficult town hall meetings end without adding up her totals, too.

According to Federal Election Commission reports from her first and so-far only Senate campaign, McCaskill had banked $11,906,356 in total contributions as of December 31, 2006. Of that total, $132,000 came from medical-industry sources:

$12,500
Rehabcare Group Inc.

$12,000
Blue Cross & Blue Shield

$10,000
American Nurses Association
Washington Women for Choice

$9,000
Missouri Hospital Association

$7,500
American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons

$7,000
Express Scripts, Inc.
Planned Parenthood

$6,000
American Healthcare Association

$5,000
American Association of Clinical Urologists
American Hospital Association
American Society of Anesthesiologists
NARAL Pro-Choice America

$3,500
American Psychiatric Association

$2,500
American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Dental Association
National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee

$2,000
American Dental Association
Healthcare Leadership Committee
Healthsouth Corporation

$1,500
Women in Psychology

$1,000
American Academy of Audiology
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Fresenius Medical Care North America
GGNSC Holdings/Golden Horizons care
Kindred Healthcare
American AIDS Political Action Committee
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American College of Surgeons

$500
Federation of American Hospitals
Physicians for a Democratic Majority

Urologists apparently love McCaskill just as much as they love Roberts.