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 $6.7M this cycle

Hospitals, doctors and drugmakers

Totals

  • Given to campaigns
    $2.9M
  • Bundled to campaigns
    $4K
  • Spent for
    $300K
  • Spent against
    $0

Groups

  • AHA PACPAC of the American Hospital Association (AHA), the trade group for hospitals and health systems. FEC type: PAC.$1.5M
  • AMPACAmerican Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC), the PAC of the American Medical Association (AMA), the largest U.S. doctors’ group. FEC type: PAC.$1.0M
  • Pfizer PACPAC funded by employees of Pfizer, the drugmaker. FEC type: PAC.$664K

Where the money went

  1. Tina Shah (D)House · NJ-07
    • Given$5K
    • For$300K
    via AMPAC
  2. John Cornyn (R)Senate · TX
    • Given$35K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  3. Jason Smith (R)House · MO-08
    • Given$30K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
    • Given$28K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  4. John Joyce (R)House · PA-13
    • Given$28K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  5. Ben Ray Luján (D)Senate · NM
    • Given$27K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  6. Troy Balderson (R)House · OH-12
    • Given$25K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  7. Suzan DelBene (D)House · WA-01
    • Given$24K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  8. Roger Marshall (R)Senate · KS
    • Given$24K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  9. Kim Schrier (D)House · WA-08
    • Given$24K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  10. Frank Pallone Jr. (D)House · NJ-06
    • Given$23K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
  11. Claudia Tenney (R)House · NY-24
    • Given$23K
    via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC

Showing the top 12 of 401 candidates.

Groups tracked · raised $83.4M this cycle

Nurses, workers and patients

Totals

  • Given to campaigns
    $1.2M
  • Bundled to campaigns
    $0
  • Spent for
    $5.1M
  • Spent against
    $285K

Groups

  • National Nurses UnitedPolitical committee of National Nurses United (NNU), a union of registered nurses. FEC type: Super PAC.$4.5M
  • 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.$2.1M

Where the money went

  1. William Lawrence (D)House · MI-07
    • For$800K
    via National Nurses United
  2. Randy Villegas (D)House · CA-22
    • For$800K
    via National Nurses United
  3. Mai Vang (D)House · CA-07
    • For$650K
    via National Nurses United
  4. Troy Jackson (D)Senate · ME
    • For$498K
    via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
  5. Abdul El-Sayed (D)Senate · MI
    • For$490K
    via National Nurses United
  6. Matthew Dunlap (D)House · ME-02
    • For$436K
    via National Nurses United
  7. Donavan McKinney (D)House · MI-13
    • Given$5K
    • For$417K
    via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
    • Against$190K
    via SEIU COPE
  8. Bob Brooks (D)House · PA-07
    • Given$10K
    • For$165K
    via SEIU COPE
  9. JoAnna Mendoza (D)House · AZ-06
    • For$160K
    via SEIU COPE
  10. Mike McGuire (D)House · CA-01
    • Given$10K
    • For$102K
    via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
    • For$100K
    via National Nurses United

Showing the top 12 of 229 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. 6, 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 includes $2.7M from 24- and 48-hour reports filed since the groups’ last regular reports. How this works.