As UnitedHealth racks up unprecedented profits, the people it insures battle for care.
consumer protection
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Public Option for Credit Card Shopping
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking aim at pay-to-play credit card comparison websites that collude with big banks to block competition.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Company Behind Joe Namath Medicare Advantage Ads Has Long Rap Sheet of Misconduct
The firm formerly known as Benefytt pocketed millions selling sham insurance to seniors and other consumers.
Posted inWorking in America
Why the Kroger-Albertsons Merger Will Harm Labor
The companies’ choice of an anti-union third party for its divestitures reveals why labor needs a seat at the table in merger remedies.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Judges Who Were Consumer or Worker Advocates? Not Many.
Biden has diversified the bench by many metrics, but corporate-side attorneys still fill most federal judgeships.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Funeral Exploits Consumers Under Guise of Inflation
Reduced inflation across the economy magnifies the sectors where high markups persist.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Domestic Textile Industry Crashing Because of Trade Loophole
The ‘de minimis’ exemption allows Chinese e-commerce companies Shein and Temu to deliver hundreds of millions of packages of cheap clothing without tariffs or inspections.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Dollar General Overcharges ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Customers, Lawsuit Alleges
The prices paid at the register do not match the price tags, according to a class action lawsuit working through the courts.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Great Medicare Advantage Marketing Scam
How for-profit health insurers convince seniors to enroll in private Medicare plans
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Building a Giant
Mapping UnitedHealth’s consumption of our health care system—from the ’70s to today
