However, while Ted Kennedy benefits from the industry's largesse, it is really only because of his power as THE senator who has (supposedly) championed health care in the US Congress, (that) most of the money from the health care robbers goes to Republicans. Explain? I don't understand how his 'power' leads to a Republican benefit.

And I gotta take exception to your lumping Nicole C in with a knee-jerk response to current politics. She, of all people, appears to scrupulously examine issues- I wish we had some like her in the senate and the house.