Hi,
UnitedHealth Group has rapidly become the largest health care conglomerate
in the country.^1 This has allowed the giant corporation to make money off
of every aspect of the health industry, incentivizing a focus on profit
over patient care.
That’s why the Department of Justice (DOJ) just launched an antitrust
investigation into UnitedHealth.^2 One giant corporation should not have
so much control over health insurance AND health care providers in
America.
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Urge the DOJ to halt UnitedHealth’s runaway
corporate growth! Break up UnitedHealth’s health care monopoly!
ADD YOUR NAME
The DOJ investigation comes as UnitedHealth is rapidly buying up doctors’
practices and outpatient surgery centers.^3 The corporation is trying to
get bigger and bigger and gain more control over the costs of health
insurance and care, which will make executives richer, jack up the cost of
getting care, and sacrifice patient care.
It also comes as the fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare Advantage
private insurance program is gaining more attention from senators like
Elizabeth Warren. UnitedHealth is one of the companies accused of
overbilling Medicare by between $12 billion and $25 billion for the
private insurance it offers seniors (which is riddled with other problems
like higher rates of care denials than traditional, publicly run
Medicare).^4
UnitedHealth must be held accountable and its health care monopoly must be
broken up!
[ [link removed] ]Add your name: Patients over corporate profits! Stop UnitedHealth.
Thanks for taking action,
Joey and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. CNBC, “How UnitedHealth Group grew bigger than the nation’s biggest
banks,” [ [link removed] ]May 20, 2023.
2. Reuters, “US launches antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth, WSJ
reports,” [ [link removed] ]February 27, 2024.
3. Stat News, “UnitedHealth is on a buying spree of outpatient surgery
centers,” [ [link removed] ]March 11, 2024.
4. New York Times, “'The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers
Exploited Medicare for Billions,” [ [link removed] ]October 8, 2022.
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