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Private Medicare Plans and Vertical Integration Yield UnitedHealth $15.8 Billion in Profits Between January and June

UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurance conglomerate by far, continues to show how rewarding it is for shareholders when corporate lawyers find loopholes in well-intentioned legislation – and game the Medicare Advantage program in ways most lawmakers and regulators didn’t anticipate and certainly didn’t intend – to boost profits. UnitedHealth

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11 arrested during protest at UnitedHealthcare HQ, alleging company is systemically “refusing to approve care”

Eleven protesters were arrested by Minnetonka police for blocking the street, according to the People’s Action Institute, which helped organize the protest as part of its Care Over Cost campaign. The campaign says it aims to bring attention to the health insurance company’s “systemic practice of refusing to approve care

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Protesters say 11 arrested outside UnitedHealthcare HQ in Minnetonka

Protest organizers say 11 people were arrested Monday outside UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnetonka during an event spotlighting what critics say is a pattern of improper coverage denials by the nation’s largest health insurer. Critics in recent years have focused on prior authorization rules that patients and health care providers say have wrongly

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UnitedHealth CEO Sold $5.6 Million in Shares the Same Day as Ransomware Attack

On February 21, the same day that a ransomware attack began to wreak havoc throughout UnitedHealth Group and the U.S. health care system, five of UnitedHealth’s C-suite executives, including CEO Andrew Witty and the company’s chief legal officer, sold $17.7 million worth of their stock in the company. Witty alone accounted for

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Senators are right to scrutinize UnitedHealth, Minnesota’s most powerful company

I hope Minnesotans read about the testimony of UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty at the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Wednesday. It’s an eye-opener about the corporate practices of our Eden Prairie health insurance/big data/whatever behemoth.  Witty was on the receiving end of scathing comments from a bipartisan group of senators —

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