HCAN's $35 million budget includes $500,000 from each group on its steering committee. It also got $10 million from the Atlantic Philanthropies, an organization dedicated to health care and human rights causes founded by duty-free shopping billionaire Chuck Feeney. HCAN touts 120 organizers spread across all but a handful of states, and $11 million spent on ads this year.
The group wouldn't confirm or deny reports that billionaire liberal philanthropist George Soros would give it $5 million. Soros and his clients have invested millions in health care ventures, Securities and Exchange Commission records show.
Americans for Stable Quality Care: Includes PhRMA, Families USA, SEIU, the AMA and the Federation of American Hospitals.
Better Health Care Together: This coalition includes various corporate and union interests, including Wal-Mart, Intel, and SEIU. It also includes the Center for American Progress, a Soros-backed policy organization that's influential in the Obama administration.
Divided We Fail: This is a partnership of the AARP, SEIU, Business Roundtable (chief executives of leading U.S. corporations), and National Federation of Independent Business, the small-business trade association.
Partnership for Quality Care: This is a coalition of various SEIU chapters and hospital and health care groups including Catholic Healthcare West, Group Health Cooperative, Kaiser Permanente and the Greater New York Hospital Association.
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