By Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence
STAT News, July 25, 2024

UnitedHealth Group started out as a small, Minnesota health insurance company and

By David Lipschutz
Center for Medicare Advocacy, Special Report, July 18, 2024

At a time when over half of all Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage

July 15, 2024

Podcast host Joe Sparks laments the growing use of artificial intelligence to deny claims in the so-called “Medicare Advantage” program—a technological advance that

By Hayden Rooke-Ley, J.D., Soleil Shah, M.D., and Erin C. Fuse Brown, J.D., M.P.H.
The New England Journal of Medicine, July 6, 2024

UnitedHealth Group has recently

By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H., David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
The Nation, July 1, 2024

Medicare Advantage—the privatized Medicare plans run by insurance

June 15, 2024

Podcast host Joe Sparks highlights PNHP’s latest report, “Taking Advantage: How Corporate Health Insurers Harm America’s Seniors.”
He cites the many ways that so-called

By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams, June 10, 2024

A new academic analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine details the enormous sums that privatized Medicare Advantage plans have cost U.S. taxpayers in recent

By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams, June 10, 2024

A new academic analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine details the enormous sums that privatized Medicare Advantage plans have cost U.S. taxpayers in recent

May 15, 2024

Podcast host Joe Sparks cites a recent MedPac report to Congress, which found that patients in so-called “Medicare Advantage” plans could have been

By Patrick Rucker and David Armstrong
ProPublica, co-published with The Capitol Forum, April 29, 2024
In late 2020, Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave

April 15, 2024

Podcast host Joe Sparks relates a recent experience filling a prescription at Costco to remind us that corporate health insurers add nothing of