NY lawmakers and party committees have taken — from the healthcare industry
New York's lawmakers accept millions from the very corporations, professional associations, and special interest groups that are actively blocking the passing of single payer bills like the New York Health Act and Medicare for All. Use this tool to track the healthcare industry and hold our elected officials accountable.
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New Sunday, September 27, 2026 tool updates
- Party committees added (major change). We now track healthcare-industry money to the Democratic and Republican state, county, Senate, and Assembly campaign committees. Because state law lets these committees accept nearly unlimited contributions, corporations and industry PACs funnel most of their political money through them rather than giving to individual candidates, who face strict limits. Capturing that flow makes the overall total jump sharply (~$9 million to ~$31 million).
- Unions are now separate. Union donations are shown as their own set of contributors with their own total, and are not counted in the healthcare-industry figure. The unions we track: SEIU, CWA, NYSNA, DC37, UFT, and Doctors Council.
- Healthcare share added. Each recipient now shows what percentage of all the money they raised comes from the healthcare industry.
About this Tool
This tool shows which healthcare industry actors fund New York's legislators and party committees. Large corporations and special interests give through many channels at once, so we group subsidiaries, executives, and PACs under their parent companies to reveal the full reach of a single entity's giving. Centene, for example, routes the bulk of its donations through its health plans, spread across 40+ different entities.
It also tracks money given to the Republican and Democratic county, state, Senate, and Assembly committees. Much of the healthcare industry's money flows here because contributions to these committees are nearly unlimited, which makes them an attractive channel for corporations and industry PACs.
Union donations are shown as a separate total that does not count toward the overall healthcare industry figure (click "Unions" in the sector dropdown to see it). Rather than report on all union giving, of which there is far more not shown, we include only unions connected to healthcare through the workers they represent. Union giving is harder to read than direct contributions from healthcare corporations and industry groups, because unions give to legislators for many reasons, whereas a corporation's or PAC's donation is a more direct expression of its specific healthcare interests. For that reason, we keep these union contributions in their own toggle and total.
Among the non-union contributors, we deliberately exclude some healthcare-related groups that openly support single payer. Everyone shown is neutral, of unknown position, or explicitly opposed to single payer. Not every donation here is bad, but the public deserves the full picture of how much the industry pours into our politics.
This tool is new and probably has some small mistakes. If you spot something verifiably wrong, email us at healthcare.nyc.dsa@gmail.com and we'll fix it quickly. We welcome feedback and ideas to make it better, and we plan to update it monthly to keep the data current.
We built this for organizers, journalists, researchers, and the public to see who funds their legislators. We want to see the day our legislators take no money from large healthcare entities, especially those actively blocking the path to single payer.
At a minimum, we ask every legislator to refuse money from health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and New York's largest and wealthiest hospitals and health systems. These institutions are the most opposed to single payer and stand to lose the most if we win. Taking their money is a direct attack on the fight for a just healthcare system.