The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 changed the provision of health care in the United States forever. Despite being challenged countless times in courts and in Congress, the law remains President Obama’s proudest achievement. He campaigned on health reform and oversaw its creation. But President Obama did not write the law. The law known as Obamacare was in fact designed by Democratic members of the United States Senate Finance Committee.

The Congress in which these Members and their staff work is more open to outsider lobbying than any other legislature in the world. The first amendment to the Constitution guarantees the freedom to petition government for redress of grievances, and this right gives businesses and other organizations essentially unlimited access to congressional representatives’ offices.