Centene earns billions of dollars from governments and then uses its profits to back the campaigns of the officials who oversee those government contracts.
The nation's largest Medicaid managed-care company has thrown more than $26.9 million at political campaigns since 2015, especially focused on states where it is wooing contracts and settling accusations that it overbilled taxpayers.
Since 2015, Centene has given more than $26 million to state political campaigns, including in places where it is wooing Medicaid contracts and settling accusations of overbilling taxpayers.
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