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Meet UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley: Rich, Powerful, Not Yet Famous

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unitedhealth, Stephen Hemsley, Hcan, Cory Alexander, St. Matthrew's Lutheran Church, Andrew Cuomo, Tom Strickland, Judah Sommer, Consumer Watchdog, Public Campaign, Jerry Brown, Rev. Grant Stevenson, Tom Daschle, Brave New Films, Wellpoint, American Medical Association, Health Cre for American Now, Minneapolis, Ingenix, Wayzata, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Business as usual for Hemsley and UnitedHealth is a chronic pattern of abuse and neglect of its policy-holders, along with a powerful political influence-peddling operation that involves costly campaign contributions.

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If the Insurance Companies Win, We Lose

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Unitedhealth, Cigna Insurance, Stephen Hemsley, Health Insurance Companies, Ed Hanway, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The health care debate is a fight over who gets what. It is a battle between the health insurance industry and the rest of us -- as consumers, as patients, as taxpayers.

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Sick of It

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unitedhealth, United Health Insurance, Take Action Minnesota, Politics News
Deepak Bhargava

UnitedHealth Group and other private insurance companies have perfected the art of how to make the most money and take care of the least amount of people, and America is sick and tired of it.

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Greed Gone Wild: Our Health Insurance Industry Is Sick and Wrong

Tim Saltonstall | Posted 09.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Unitedhealth, Blue Cross, Health Insurance Profits, Veterans Administration, Anthem, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Health Care for America Now, Colorado, Tricare, Denver News
Tim Saltonstall

Many from Colorado would rather pay into a system that is non-profit and run by the government than give these greedy executives one more dime.

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Help Us Investigate How Often Health Insurers Deny Claims

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.03.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: House of Representatives, Unitedhealth, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, Health Care Reform, Health Care, America's Health Insurance Plans, Healthcare, California Nurses Association, Eyes & Ears News

Amid all the loud arguments about the proper role for government and private companies in American health care, one point often seems lost: Exactly ho...

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On Racism, Death Threats and the Blindness of Those Who Will Not See

David Sirota | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Jim Greer, Don Lemon, Cnn, Unitedhealth, Congressional Campaigns, Twitter, Nancy Pelosi, Progressives, Race, Tea Parties, Democrats, United Health Care, Constitutional Rights, Mob Mentality, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, Constitution, Partisanship, Republicans, Politics News
David Sirota

We're living in a world where the behavior of right-wing lynch mobs clearly is far less about ideology, and far more about partisanship and racial hate.

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UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option

David Sirota | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Steve Elmendorf, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Congress, Unitedhealth, Fundraising, Lobbyists, Politics News
David Sirota

The sequencing here is important: Pelosi makes her announcement and then just hours later, the fundraising invitation goes out. Coincidental? I'm guessing no -- these things rarely ever are.

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Tom Daschle: The Man Behind Insurance Cooperatives

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unitedhealth, Insurance-Coops, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Insurance Cooperatives, Tom Daschle, Kent Conrad, Lewin Group, Health Care, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Tom Daschle, has been busy performing his dual roles as health care adviser to the White House and "highly paid policy adviser to hospital, drug, pharmaceutical and other health care industry clients."

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The Health Insurers Have Already Won: How They Did It

BusinessWeek | Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Shaping Health Care Reform, Unitedhealth, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurers, Health Care, Transparency, Politics News

As the health reform fight shifts this month from a vacationing Washington to congressional districts and local airwaves around the country, much more...

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Is Offshoring America's Healthcare Next?

Scott Lachut | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Unitedhealth, Offshore, Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Business News
Scott Lachut

Citing the rising cost of healthcare, several insurers have taken a page out of travel guides for "medical tourism" and begun toying with the idea of sending their patients abroad for routine surgeries.

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Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit And Socializes Risk

Michele Swenson | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Economic Crisis, Government Health Care, Medical Bankdruptcy, Taxpayer-Subsidized Medical Costs, Unpaid Medical Bills, Privatized Medicare, National Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Socialized Risk, Rising Out-of-Pocket Health Costs, Socialized Medicine, For-Profit Insurance, Health, Single Payer Health Insurance, Privatized Profit, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Health Care, American Hospital Association, Unitedhealth, William McGuire, John McCain, Minimum Benefit Plans, America's Health Insurance Providers, American Medical Association, Home News
Michele Swenson

The excesses of the health insurance industry resemble those of Wall Street and the subprime housing market, typified by privatized profits for insurers and socialized risk for taxpayers and consumers.

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Insurers Accused Of Using "Rigged Data" To Manipulate Customers

ABC News | RICHARD ESPOSITO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Health Care Insurers, New York Attorney General Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, Unitedhealth, Business News

The nation's largest health care insurer, four of its subsidiaries and a number of other large insurers are being served subpoenas -- 16 in all -- in ...

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Former UnitedHealth CEO To Forfeit $418 Million

New York Times | Eric Dash | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Sec, UnitedHealth, CEO Compensation, William McGuire, Business News

In one of the largest corporate pay give-backs ever, William W. McGuire, the former chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, has agreed to forfeit at le...

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