Reports suggest UnitedHealth gave BONUSES to nursing homes for sending fewer people to the hospital, even if they were sick.

Senator Ron Wyden and I are pressing for answers. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are launching an investigation into UnitedHealth Group related to allegations that the company secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to cut hospital transfers of sick residents.

US Senators Wyden, Warren launch probe into UnitedHealth's nursing home practices

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are launching an investigation into UnitedHealth Group related to allegations that the company secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to cut hospital transfers of sick residents.

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  1. I agree. But while I detest that insurance companies are dictating treatment decisions, I also worry about the gov’t deciding what healthcare I can receive. We must work patient autonomy into it somehow.

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