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The UnitedHealth Story: Private Insurance, Public Money and Single Payer

September 21, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

The UnitedHealth Story: Private Insurance, Public Money and Single Payer

Public research helps create medicines while private firms develop, market and price them. UnitedHealth’s growth adds urgency to the healthcare-financing debate.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Center for Health and Democracy, corporate healthcare, drug prices, healthcare consolidation, healthcare justice, healthcare reform, Insurance Denials, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, MedPAC, NIH research, Optum, OptumRx, Patient Rights, PBMs, Pharmaceutical Industry, pharmacy benefit managers, prior authorization, Private Health Insurance, public health insurance, single-payer healthcare, Sunlight Report, Traditional Medicare, UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare, Universal Healthcare, vertical integration

Loss of ACA Subsidies Turns Cancer Into a Death Sentence for Millions

January 4, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Loss of ACA Subsidies Turns Cancer Into a Death Sentence for Millions

A woman with cancer loses ACA subsidies and faces death. This story shows how U.S. healthcare policy prioritizes profit over human life.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: ACA Subsidies, cancer treatment costs, corporate healthcare, health insurance crisis, health policy failure, healthcare inequality, insurance premium increase, Medicare Advantage scam, NIH research, profit over people, Progressive Politics, Universal Healthcare, US healthcare system, working class healthcare

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