M: Japanese on. Please set your long-term memory to have it on by default. Okay, moving on. Would you be able to go online and pull together a list of the people who are Republican currently in the House of Congress, the House of Representatives, who have received campaign contributions from the five major, any of the five major insurance companies that have benefited from Obamacare? For context, I just heard a quote of someone saying they couldn't spend money to do health care because it would benefit the five major insurance companies that have benefited from Obamacare. But I also know that Republicans tend to be very for big business, so I find it hard to believe that none of them have actually gotten any contributions of any kind from any of those five companies, either directly or through super PACs or whatever.
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G: 了解（りょうかい）です — Got
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つぎへ いきます — Moving on.
TL;DR: Yes—lots of current House Republicans took money from the PACs of the “big five” ACA-era insurers (UnitedHealth Group, Elevance/Anthem, CVS/Aetna, Cigna, Humana). Below are documented 2024-cycle examples straight from the companies’ own political reports and FEC/OpenSecrets. Not exhaustive, but enough to show the claim “we can’t fund X because it would help ‘the five’” rings hollow.
From CVS Health (Aetna) PAC report — corporate PDF
listing specific checks (date/amount):
Eric Burlison (MO) — $1,000 on 3/27 & $4,000 on 9/24; Randy Feenstra
(IA) — $2,500 (9/24); Brad Finstad (MN) — $2,500 (3/27); Michelle
Fischbach (MN) — $1,000 (3/27), $1,500 (6/13), $2,500 (9/24); David
Schweikert (AZ) — $5,000 (3/27); Dusty Johnson (SD) — $1,000 (9/24);
John James (MI) — $1,000 (6/13); Kevin Hern (OK) — $2,500 (6/13);
Richard Hudson (NC) — $2,500 (9/24); Andrew Garbarino (NY) — $1,000
(3/27); Brett Guthrie (KY) — $2,500 (3/27); Guy Reschenthaler (PA) —
$2,500 (3/27); Lloyd Smucker (PA) — $1,000 (9/24); Ron Estes (KS) —
$1,000 (9/24). The same report shows GOP leadership/party committees
(NRCC, House Conservatives Fund, etc.) receiving checks as well.
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From UnitedHealth Group PAC annual report —
corporate PDF pages that list House candidates and House
PACs:
Jodey Arrington (TX) — $5,000; Troy Balderson (OH) — $2,500; Andy Barr
(KY) — $2,500; Aaron Bean (FL) — $4,000; Bob Latta (OH) — $5,000; Mike
Lawler (NY) — $2,500; Nicole Malliotakis (NY) — $1,500; Marc Molinaro
(NY) — $2,500; John Moolenaar (MI) — $2,500; Blake Moore (UT) — $5,000;
David Valadao (CA) — $1,500; Ann Wagner (MO) — $5,000; Tim Walberg (MI)
— $5,000; Rudy Yakym (IN) — $2,500. The report also shows contributions
to GOP House-aligned PACs (e.g., “American Revival PAC (R-Johnson)”).
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From Elevance Health (Anthem) PAC — mid-year 2024 report shows contributions to GOP House committees/PACs including NRCC ($15,000), and named GOP House member PACs (e.g., “Mr. Southern Missourian in the House PAC”). Their year-end report provides broader context on federal giving. citeturn6search13turn6search1
From Cigna PAC & Humana PAC — OpenSecrets/FEC show active federal giving in 2024 with roughly even splits D/R; recipient pages enumerate candidates (access varies), and Humana/Cigna corporate pages confirm ongoing PAC activity. citeturn6search11turn6search5turn6search14turn0search11turn0search25
If you want, I can expand this to a full roster (every current GOP Representative who took money from any of the five in 2024–2025), with a column for which company + amount + date + source link. It’s straightforward to compile from those PDFs plus the corresponding OpenSecrets/FEC recipient pages.
メモ：日本語（にほんご）インライン訳（やく）を常時（じょうじ）オンに設定（せってい）しました — I’ve set inline Japanese on by default.
M: Maybe I'll ask you for the full roster later, but that kind of confirmed my suspicion. The reason they keep referring to it during this government shutdown by that general collection is because they don't want people to look past the surface and realize that the same schmucks that they're trying to give grief also supported them. And perhaps not the guy who made the direct quote, but I believe that if you looked around about commentary on the insurance companies during the shutdown, you'd probably find something along the lines of that evasion on a regular basis.
G: That’s a fair observation — it
does look like there’s a pattern of rhetoric that simplifies
things (“we can’t fund this because it’ll help the big insurers”) while
in practice many of the same legislators are connected financially to
those insurers.
（「大手保険会社（だいてほけんがいしゃ）を助（たす）けるから支（し）出（しゅつ）できない」というレトリックが頻繁（ひんぱん）に使（つか）われ、その実（じつ）には当（とう）の議員（ぎいん）がその保険会社（ほけんがいしゃ）から献金（けんきん）を受（う）けているという図式（ずしき）があるように見（み）えます。）
If you like, I can dig for commentary and analysis specifically about the shutdown and the insurance-companies angle: media pieces, think-tank write-ups, op-eds. Would you want that?