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Over 1/3 of US Congress members hold healthcare-related financial assets

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Over 1/3 of US Congress members hold healthcare-related financial assets

image: Median total value of health care-related assets per member per year, by party among those holding at least one health asset in a given year. view more 

Credit: McCoy et al, 2021, PLOS ONE (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Over 1/3 of US Congress members hold healthcare-related financial assets, with a median value of $43,000, according to analysis of healthcare conflicts of interest using 11 years of data.

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Article Title: Historical trends in health care-related financial holdings among members of Congress

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253624


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