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My dad, who had a heart transplant this summer, is on United Healthcare. I recently found my neighbor weeping in her car because she wasn't sure how she would pay for cancer treatments at Hopkins.

This is absolutely terrible, and it punishes patients most of all: www.thebanner.com/community/pu...
Johns Hopkins says it won't be returning to UnitedHealthcare’s network
Johns Hopkins Medicine officials say they have ended negotiations with the insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, leaving its doctors and hospitals out of network for some 60,000 patients.
www.thebanner.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
United Healthcare is threatening to make Johns Hopkins out of network on August 25, 2025, and for some reason this is not being covered by any news? Both UH and JH have released statements on the "negotiations" holding up the contract renewal. Let's just say one seems more plausible than the other.
July 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"The world may be fallin' down round us, but best believe we gon' laugh, we gon' dance, and we gon' be family. That's how we've been for generations. No matter how much hate, how much pain they throw at us, we always gon' rise. Resilience is a form of magic."
Blood at the Root
By LaDarrion Williams
July 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
United Healthcare Insurance tried (and recently lost) to get the US Government to reimburse $3.8 million it paid for a pre-authorized heart transplant surgery.

It is so wild and sleazy to base a whole company/industry on trying to get out of paying for services after agreeing to pay for them.
www.cbca.gov
May 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"In fact, in the minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"
5 takeaways about NPR's reporting on the whistleblower report about DOGE at the NLRB
Here's a summary of NPR's findings about the report that a whistleblower filed to Congress about how DOGE violated security protocols and could have removed sensitive labor data.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Last night, this administration illegally banned most federal employees from unionizing.

"All told, the agencies covered by Trump's order amounts to 67% of the federal workforce, and 75% of federal workers and who are currently represented by unions."

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Trump order aims to outlaw most government unions on ‘national security’ grounds
An as-yet unpublished executive order purports to utilize a little-used provision allowing the president to restrict collective bargaining for national security reasons to exempt most federal jobs fro...
www.govexec.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM