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UnitedHealth Group Pitches Itself As Pro-Reform Insurance Company, While Directing Employees To Tea Parties


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As an addendum to this post, take a look at UnitedHealth Group's health care reform website. It sends a purely positive message, complete with a Polaroid image of a happy, healthy family urging people to "tell congress to unite for health reform"

The letter the company sent to employees, calling on them to get involved in the health care debate is likewise headlined with the message "United for Health Reform."

And yet, as I reported, the company doesn't just advise employees to attend town hall forums. It arms them with talking points for those forums, and even directs them to anti-health care reform tea parties.

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August 19, 2009 11:36 AM   

UnitedHealth pro-reform?

I'll try not to spit out my coffee.

These jerks are the biggest funders bankrolling the anti-reform ad campaigns.

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August 19, 2009 11:37 AM   

Also note that they have a history of ethical problems like the huge scandal of backdating stock options.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedHealth_Group

A real bunch of sleaze bags, and EXACTLY what is wrong with the system.

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August 19, 2009 7:09 PM   

As far as health care industry compensation you couldn't get higher than United Health Care's former CEO McGuire. A new high in time travel (backdating stock options) for dollars.

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