Health-Care Companies Pour $46.7 Million Into Midterm Vote
- Doctors’ groups spent the most, followed by pharma, insurers
- The 2018 election to be the most expensive midterm in history
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The health-care industry has given $46.7 million to candidates in the midterm elections this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, pouring money into a tightly fought battle between Democrats and Republicans over control of Congress.
Of the money given by health-care political action committees -- the official political arms of companies and industry or professional associations -- 57 percent went to Republicans.