"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
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More money should be provided to treat this illness. Catch it while they're young and treat it. They are a real danger and commit genuine harm to everyone.
This allows double dipping on both sides of the transaction by the same parent corp, which benefits from inflated prices across the board.
* A state attny general initiates a lawsuit
* Federal gov joins it
* Fed tears UHG apart at the joints, creating 4 separate companies
This happened to AT&T in 1984.
One by-product of the above is fear and real change possible in the industry.
Does it get more get richer quicker for corporate America?
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21238357/obamacare-supreme-court-maine-communities-united-states-risk-corridors-sonia-sotomayor
https://time.com/198/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/
Fine them for gouging.
and so should any business executive who believes in free market competition rather than non-competitive oligopolies
Good job, OptumRX, CVS Caremark Rx, and Express Scripts
I guess you follow the "first do lotsa harm" oath.
https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2025/02/21/praying-for-pope-francis-a-beacon-of-hope-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-and-the-tyranny-of-qlarants-artificial-generated-stupidity/
Same with tax. We pay our reps to redistribute our taxes up.
And people whine that if the Ds go move even a scintilla to the left, they're over. Sure.
https://archive.md/7vHah
But, part of the ordinary, they slide from accountability.
“The love of money is the root of all evil” it says in some ancient text
better get used to it.
I am lucky to be alive.being glad I am not violent, I can't blame Luigi.
Let's face it, they buy both sides of politics , to get away w this.
Where the fuck did that energy go.
Rise up folks, rise up!
Musk and Ramsawaney should go after them first to make government more efficient… long before sacking half of DC.
Have you not been paying attention?
The only thing he'll do to the health insurance industry is remove any remaining oversight.
Anyone who thinks "I hope MY billionaires go after THOSE billionaires" is going to be awfully disappointed.
They're simply middlemen that add zero value to the healthcare system & exist only as rent seekers siphoning off the wealth of our nation for personal gain.
Now to get the shipping companies to go down my rural road in the winter. They are making the drivers pay the cost of towing their trucks out, or forbidding them to go on gravel roads with snow altogether.
A surgeon was called out of an operation on a breast cancer patient - to take a call from the insurance company, demanding to know if the surgery was "necessary".
Rage is what I feel at this story. Fucking rage.
Those guys who are all f'd up?
Oy.
You tell me who’s stupid 🤷♂️
Let's agree to disagree
TheGOP plans to dismantle gov't agencies which help non-rich, Consumer Protection Bureau & roll back anti-trust regs.
And people wonder why the CEO killer is seen as a hero??? 🤔🤔🤔 That's exactly why!