Looks like the action was effective in getting at least minimal attention brought by congress.
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Looks like the action was effective in getting at least minimal attention brought by congress.
Cost a lot less than UHC's spent on lobbying them, too.
Congress Introduces Bills to Break Up UnitedHealth Group
Congress members in both houses are pushing to break up the nation's biggest insurance monopolies after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder last week sparked widespread anger. As the New York Times reports, these bipartisan bills seek to force insurers and other healthcare companies to sell off their so-called "pharmacy benefit managers" or PBMs — which companies and government agencies use to manage their employees' prescription benefits — within the next three years. Though neither bi
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This is how they have chosen to transact negotiations, huh.
And given the rapidity, they already knew what they would have to do.
They could have done this anytime in the last several years, but chose not to until this moment.
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Like, do they understand that they have now set terms?
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This is so exasperatingly awful. None of this was ever necessary. They chose to insist on this as their mechanism to start doing anything at all to fix a situation they full well understood in detail.
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So, what, in the upcoming klept mess, the regulatory state will have to be reimplemented by means of a chmod 661?
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My head is trying to compose a bad pun involving "Upton Funk" around a beef packing plant but I can't seem to meet that beat.
