"The Health Insurers Have Already Won"

reporters Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein argue UnitedHealth and other insurers maneuvered to shape healthcare reform for their own benefit. The story is titled “The Health Insurers Have Already Won,” and the authors argue that the insurers have “succeeded in redefining the terms of the reform debate to such a degree that no matter what specifics emerge in the voluminous bill Congress may send to President Obama this fall, the insurance industry will ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.4
by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 18, 2009

The piece looks at United Health and the degree to which they are using their research to feed talking points used by opponents of real reform in health care. Their potential of huge profits from the health care reform shows their conflict of interest here versus the public interest.

They have won unless there is a major public uprising... And we need publicly financed elections.

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