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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

Private Equity Turned Apartments Into Profit Widgets—Then Tenants Paid the Price

August 31, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Private Equity Turned Apartments Into Profit Widgets—Then Tenants Paid the Price

A deadly Syracuse fire and years of violations expose a larger problem: financialized housing can reward revenue growth while tenants struggle for heat, safety, and repairs.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Affordable Housing, Apartment Safety, capitalism, corporate greed, Corporate landlords, Economic Justice, Financialized Housing, healthcare reform, Housing Crisis, Housing Inequality, Letitia James, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, Nob Hill Apartments, private equity, Private Health Insurance, Rent Crisis, Syracuse, Tenant Rights, Wall Street

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

August 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

Solar waits, patients suffer, and workers sit idle while corporations demand maximum extraction. This exposes the grand economic con behind “free markets.”

Filed Under: General Tagged With: America’s Grand Economic Con, capitalism, Climate Crisis, corporate greed, Democratic Economy, drug prices, Economic fraud, Economic Inequality, Electrical Grid, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, fossil fuels, green energy, Healthcare Profiteering, infrastructure, Insurance Denials, Job Creation, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, NIH research, Oil Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Politics Done Right, Prescription Drugs, Private Health Insurance, Privatized Profit, Profit Blocks Progress, progressive economics, public investment, renewable energy, rooftop solar, Socialized Risk, solar energy, Traditional Medicare, Unemployment

Corporate Socialism Exposed 60 Minutes Reveals Who Really Takes the Risk

April 4, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Corporate Socialism Exposed 60 Minutes Reveals Who Really Takes the Risk

60 Minutes reveals how corporations rely on subsidies while avoiding risk—rare earths, shipbuilding, and more expose capitalism’s structural failure.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: capitalism, China economy, corporate greed, Corporate Socialism, Corporate Welfare, Economic Inequality, Government Subsidies, industrial policy, infrastructure, Medicare Advantage, neoliberalism, progressive economics, public investment, rare earth minerals, shipbuilding

The Truth About Medicare Advantage: A Corporate Scam Disguised as Choice

October 15, 2025 By Egberto Willies

The Truth About Medicare Advantage: A Corporate Scam Disguised as Choice

A Houston retirees forum reveals how Medicare Advantage privatizes healthcare and drains public trust. Choose Traditional Medicare as we fight for Medicare for All.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, Politics, Traditional Medicare

This tele doctor’s humanity superseded her FAFO desire for her MAGA patient.

October 4, 2025 By Egberto Willies

This tele doctor's humanity superseded her FAFO desire for her MAGA patient

It is admirable that this tele doctor disregarded the FAFO instinct and went above and beyond to save a MAGA patient in a rural healthcare desert.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Doctor, healthcare, MAGA, medical desert, Medicare Advantage, tele doctor

SAY NO TO MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: Disregard Medicare education on TikTok and elsewhere.

September 6, 2025 By Egberto Willies

SAY NO TO MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: Disregard Medicare education on TikTok and elsewhere.

Here is why you should disregard the TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and TV ads purporting to educate you on all things Medicare. They will try to coerce you into enrolling in a Medicare Advantage plan.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Medicare Advantage

Why Medicare Advantage Will Always Be a Disadvantage Compared to Traditional Medicare

August 4, 2025 By Egberto Willies

Why Medicare Advantage Will Always Be a Disadvantage Compared to Traditional Medicare

Medicare Advantage is a corporate-driven scheme that restricts care, overcharges taxpayers, and traps seniors in inferior plans—undermining Traditional Medicare and enriching private insurers.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Medicare Advantage

New York is forcing Medicare Advantage on retirees, a transfer of our money to the wealthy, again.

June 20, 2025 By Egberto Willies

The Medicare Advantage fraud, a bait and switch, is affecting many unionized retirees all over the country -- many times unbeknownst to them.

The Medicare Advantage fraud, a bait and switch, is affecting many unionized retirees all over the country — many times unbeknownst to them.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Medicare, Medicare Advantage

Bernie Sanders flips Dana Bash’s false narrative about national debt and Medicare cuts.

June 11, 2025 By Egberto Willies

Bernie Sanders flips Dana Bash's false narrative about national debt and Medicare cuts.

Bernie Sanders took Dana Bash’s loaded question about Medicaid and Medicare and flipped it to illustrate the need for Medicare for All.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Dana Bash, Medicare, Medicare Advantage

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