Health insurers and providers are using industrial loan companies and other tactics to make money from financial engineering rather than patient care.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Meet the Connectors
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
Posted inTAP
UnitedHealth Merger Approval Again Shows Lobbyist Power
Today on TAP: Another merger settlement allows consolidation in health care; UnitedHealth’s lobbyist was MAGA’s biggest firm.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
UnitedHealth Has 2,694 Subsidiaries and Affiliates. Is It Too Big to Manage?
This behemoth conglomerate might just be too monstrous for its own good.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘So Much Evil Had To Happen for this Bill To Pass’
Oregon just made corporate medicine illegal, again. Here’s how it happened.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Medicare Fraud? Insider Trading? Another New CEO? Just a Normal Week at UnitedHealth.
While senators demand investigation of insider trading, the DOJ is reportedly looking into massive fraud.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Exclusive: Intelligence Dossier Compares Luigi Mangione to ‘Robin Hood’
The document from a state fusion center cites high health care costs as a key source of instability in the country.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Did Luigi Save the UnitedHealth Case?
While shutting down dozens of corporate crime probes, the Trump DOJ seems to have jump-started a forever investigation into the mega-insurer’s billing practices.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Producer of Luigi Mangione Documentary Had Previous Show Canceled After Police Killing
Dan Abrams’s documentary on the UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying takes the police perspective. That’s common for the longtime journalist and legal analyst.
Posted inPolitics
Corrupted Capitalism and Dithering Democrats
America needs a true opposition party.