NY lawmakers 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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About this Tool
This tool shows which healthcare industry actors fund New York's legislators. We group subsidiaries, executives, and PACs under their parent companies, because large corporations and special interests give through many channels at once. Grouping them reveals the full reach of a single entity's giving. For example, we found that the health insurer Centene gives the bulk of its donations through its health plans, spread across 40+ different entities.
We deliberately exclude groups that openly support single payer, such as the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). Every contributor shown is neutral, of unknown position, or explicitly opposed to single payer. We also filter out most unions, showing only those with a record of opposing the New York Health Act (currently DC37 and the UFT). Not every donation shown 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@socialists.nyc and we'll fix it as soon as possible. We welcome feedback on how it works 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.