The Atlanta Journal-Constitution finds that health care interests shower money on Georgia legislators: "In the final days before the start of the 2008 legislative session, a health care company lobbying for a law to help it get into the Georgia market doled out $41,000 in campaign contributions to more than 50 lawmakers and top state officials."

How can this be? The AJC itself holds the answer: "The state spends billions of dollars a year providing health care to Georgians, and many companies have a big stake in the state budget."

Cancer Treatment Centers of America, which stands to benefit from a new Certificate of Need law that would open up the state to its business, was not alone in giving money to legislators. In fact, it appears that the company was outspent by hospitals that wished to keep it out of the state: "The strongest opposition came from the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals, a powerful group representing nonprofit hospitals across the state. The group, which objected to the cancer hospital and other proposed changes to the state's health care regulatory system, gave almost $60,000 to more than 70 lawmakers in December, the month before the session."