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Dear reader,

Today on the website, we have two stories that adequately
describe how our corporatized health care system provides opportunities
for corporations to buy up market share under the guise of convenience
for the patient, while cutting costs to provide inadequate and
substandard care.

American Economic Liberties Project staffers Sara Sirota and Krista
Brown wrote about the decades-long history of UnitedHealth, the largest
insurer & the largest employer of physicians in the country. United has
captured so much of the health care market through aggressive mergers
and acquiring subsidiaries in various parts of the market that a quarter
of its revenues is collected from its own subsidiaries. You can read
Sirota and Brown's deep dive into UnitedHealth's takeover of
American health care
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Luke Goldstein reports on Dollar General's new foray into primary
care, DG Wellbeing. Much in the same way that Dollar General's
business model capitalizes upon America's stark economic inequality by
intentionally opening locations in low-income areas and then pricing out
competitors, the retailer has now set its sights on taking advantage of
rural "health care deserts," where traditional medical services are
often inaccessible. Dollar General may be filling a void, but its retail
model and extreme cost-cutting practices pose severe concerns for the
quality of the medical treatment that patients will receive. You can
read Luke's story
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These stories are part of our ongoing series on the business of health
care-the inner workings of the monopolies and cartels extracting
ever-greater sums for ever-lousier outcomes, and the policies and
protocols pushing doctors and nurses to the brink-and increasingly
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