PaidForPolitics

Affordability: Health care costs

Drug prices, hospital bills and insurance premiums are set partly in Washington. These groups give to candidates who write those rules.

  • Given: the group’s own contributions to the campaign
  • Bundled: donors’ contributions the group collected and forwarded
  • For: outside spending supporting
  • Against: outside spending opposing

Groups tracked · raised $7.1M this cycle

Hospitals, doctors and drugmakers

Totals

  • Given to campaigns
    $2.9M
  • Bundled to campaigns
    $9K
  • Spent for
    $2.2M
  • Spent against
    $0

Groups

  • AHA PACPAC of the American Hospital Association (AHA), the trade group for hospitals and health systems. FEC type: PAC.$2.8M
  • AMPACAmerican Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC), the PAC of the American Medical Association (AMA), the largest U.S. doctors’ group. FEC type: PAC.$1.6M
  • Pfizer PACPAC funded by employees of Pfizer, the drugmaker. FEC type: PAC.$719K

Where the money went

  1. Susan Collins (R)Senate · ME
    • Given$19K
    • For$400K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  2. Ralph Alvarado (R)House · KY-06
    • Given$13K
    • For$400K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC
  3. Thomas R. Suozzi (D)House · NY-03
    • Given$21K
    • For$375K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  4. Tina Shah (D)House · NJ-07
    • Given$5K
    • For$300K
    via AMPAC
  5. Mike Thompson (D)House · CA-04
    • Given$15K
    • For$275K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  6. Brian Fitzpatrick (R)House · PA-01
    • Given$22K
    • For$210K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  7. Amish Shah (D)House · AZ-01
    • Given$5K
    • For$200K
    via AMPAC
  8. John Cornyn (R)Senate · TX
    • Given$35K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  9. Jason Smith (R)House · MO-08
    • Given$30K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  10. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R)House · IA-01
    • Given$28K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  11. John Joyce (R)House · PA-13
    • Given$28K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  12. Ben Ray Luján (D)Senate · NM
    • Given$27K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC

Showing the top 12 of 401 candidates.

Groups tracked · raised $94.3M this cycle

Nurses, workers and patients

Totals

  • Given to campaigns
    $1.2M
  • Bundled to campaigns
    $0
  • Spent for
    $7.8M
  • Spent against
    $1.0M

Groups

  • National Nurses UnitedPolitical committee of National Nurses United (NNU), a union of registered nurses. FEC type: Super PAC.$5.8M
  • SEIU COPECommittee on Political Education (COPE) of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents health care, public sector and building service workers. FEC type: PAC.$4.2M

Where the money went

  1. Randy Villegas (D)House · CA-22
    • For$813K
    via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
  2. William Lawrence (D)House · MI-07
    • For$800K
    via National Nurses United
  3. Abdul El-Sayed (D)Senate · MI
    • For$789K
    via National Nurses United
  4. Mai Vang (D)House · CA-07
    • For$745K
    via National Nurses United
  5. Troy Jackson (D)Senate · ME
    • For$504K
    via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
  6. Angie Nixon (D)Senate · FL
    • For$481K
    via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
  7. Matthew Dunlap (D)House · ME-02
    • For$436K
    via National Nurses United
  8. Donavan McKinney (D)House · MI-13
    • Given$5K
    • For$417K
    via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
  9. Nick Begich III (R)House · AK
    • Against$305K
    via SEIU COPE
  10. JoAnna Mendoza (D)House · AZ-06
    • For$275K
    via SEIU COPE
  11. Matt Little (D)House · MN-02
    • Given$5K
    • For$261K
    via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
  12. Bob Brooks (D)House · PA-07
    • Given$5K
    • For$229K
    via SEIU COPE

Showing the top 12 of 248 candidates.

What this page doesn’t show

  • Pharmaceutical and hospital lobbying, which is far larger than their FEC spending
  • Issue ads run by nonprofits outside FEC reporting windows
  • Money given to party committees and other PACs, which is listed on each group’s own page

Totals cover the 2025-26 cycle, from FEC data as of Oct. 31, 2026. Each group’s total counts its contributions to candidates’ campaigns, the bundled contributions it forwarded for its donors, and its outside spending for and against candidates. Bundled money belongs to the individual donors, so it’s shown separately from the group’s own giving and never counted twice. Outside spending is from FEC filings through Oct. 30, 2026, the same figures as our race pages, and includes $7.9M from 24- and 48-hour reports, as filed. How this works.