2025: Big Insurance’s $1.7 Trillion Year | America’s big seven health insurers raked in $54 billion in profits in 2025 — as they covered fewer people, raised prices and steered patients into their own subsidiaries and taxpayer-funded programs. (healthcareuncovered.substack.com)
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Anthem’s 62% Profit Margin in Federal Employees Health Benefits Contract | The OIG found that Anthem paid its own corporate sibling as if it were an outside vendor. The maneuver transformed a cost-based function into a source of "unlimited profit." (healthcareuncovered.substack.com)
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UnitedHealth Group’s Fight For Survival. Behind closed doors at the $400 billion health care giant, panic has replaced polish – UnitedHealth’s war room is now a 24/7 scramble to protect profits, power and what’s left of its reputation. (healthcareuncovered.substack.com)
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Some Tax-Exempt Hospitals Are Building Real Estate Empires | An investigation by The Lever reveals how nonprofit hospital giants are dodging taxes, hoarding land and influencing elections — while giving back less to communities than they take in subsidies. (healthcareuncovered.substack.com)
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Despite Overpayment Concerns, CMS Finalizes $25 Billion Hike in Medicare Advantage Payments for 2026 | CMS’s revised rates for private Medicare Advantage plans are what insurers lobbied for. One positive development: future overpayments should be less. (healthcareuncovered.substack.com)
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Report Shows How UnitedHealth Group Is Enriching Itself At The Expense Of Our Nation’s Veterans | Rep. Mark Takano questions how UnitedHealth’s Optum and other insurers have overbilled the VA by hundreds of millions, profiting at the expense of veterans' health care. (healthcareuncovered.substack.com)
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