Today, the health insurance industry group AHIP - America's Health Insurance Plans - is in the news for "declaring war" on health care reform by releasing the results of a study they themselves commissioned and which they claim proves that the Senate Finance Committee bill would increase health insurance premiums. As the Politico notes:

This might be the first rift unfolding in public between an inustry player and the White House and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.). The health care industry has been loathe to litigate the bill in public, fearing a backlash from the White House. The pharmaceutical and hospital industries cut separate deals with the White House and Baucus to mitigate that amount of payment cuts they could face in an overhauled system....

In the report, "there are a series of conclusions they draw that are not conclusions drawn by anybody else," [an] administration official said.

Over the weekend, Jim Cooper proclaimed his sorrow that the "lobbyists were winning" the health care fight. But back in April, Cooper was more than happy to accept a campaign contribution from a lobbyist for AHIP:

CHAMPLIN, STEVEN - WASHINGTON DC 20007 - 04/24/2009 - 500.00 - THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP, INC./VP/TREA

The Duberstein Group and Steven Champlin in particular count AHIP as one of their clients, and the Duberstein Group has received $200,000 from AHIP in 2009 alone.