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Comment by criddell

6 months ago

But when UnitedHealth requires medications to be purchased from Optum health (with whom they share a parent company), they can jack up the price of a drug and keep some of that 85% too.

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ceejayoz  6 months ago

They own the physicians, too.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/25/united-health-group-medi...

To whom they pay higher "medical loss":

https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/unitedhealth-higher-paym...

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