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
- Tina Shah (D)House · NJ-07via AMPAC
- John Cornyn (R)Senate · TXvia AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Jason Smith (R)House · MO-08via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R)House · IA-01via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- John Joyce (R)House · PA-13via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Ben Ray Luján (D)Senate · NMvia AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Troy Balderson (R)House · OH-12via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Suzan DelBene (D)House · WA-01via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Roger Marshall (R)Senate · KSvia AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Kim Schrier (D)House · WA-08via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Frank Pallone Jr. (D)House · NJ-06via AHA PAC, AMPAC, Pfizer PAC
- Claudia Tenney (R)House · NY-24via 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
- William Lawrence (D)House · MI-07via National Nurses United
- Randy Villegas (D)House · CA-22via National Nurses United
- Mai Vang (D)House · CA-07via National Nurses United
- Troy Jackson (D)Senate · MEvia National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
- Abdul El-Sayed (D)Senate · MIvia National Nurses United
- Matthew Dunlap (D)House · ME-02via National Nurses United
- Donavan McKinney (D)House · MI-13via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
- Nick Begich III (R)House · AKvia SEIU COPE
- Bob Brooks (D)House · PA-07via SEIU COPE
- JoAnna Mendoza (D)House · AZ-06via SEIU COPE
- Mike McGuire (D)House · CA-01via National Nurses United, SEIU COPE
- Robert James Peters (D)House · IL-02via 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.