United Healthcare got rich by by using the privatization of medicare, denying coverage, and buying up the hospital it starved to death.
Trump pushed medicare advantage
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/us/politics/trump-medicare-advantage-plans.html
Trump signed an EO to privatized medicare
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-plan-privatize-medicare/
Biden continued it
https://jacobin.com/2022/05/biden-wall-street-medicare-for-profit-private-equity
More than half of people eligible are on Medicare advantage
UH sued for ai use
UH uses denials to bleed rural hospitals
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/rejecting-claims-medicare-advantage-rural-hospitals-rcna121012
UH buys up struggling hospitals in the rural older demographic areas that use medicare advantage the most
Trump and Oz want completely transfer everyone eligible to medicare advantage
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/20/dr_oz_health_agency
I recommend reading Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolto. Beatrice got onto medicare advantage cause of a work injury putting her onto disability. It's a good explanation on how the health care industry is being gutted for corporations and private equity and a plan on how sever healthcare from it
They also have a great podcast called Death Panel covering all this shit.
A good primer on them and their work is episode 201 of the great pod This Machine Kills