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The Hartmann Report

AMERICAN HEALTH CARE IS A PARASITIC INDUSTRY

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The for-profit medical industry is sucking us dry. What are the forces that work to keep it this way?

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This is the Tom Harbin Program

0:45.4

ProPublica just does this extraordinary reporting, deep dive research, comprehensive analysis.

1:03.3

This is a story by David Armstrong, Patrick Rucker and Maya Miller over at propublica.org.

1:09.3

Titled UnitedHealthcare, tried to deny coverage to a chronically ill patient.

1:14.1

He fought back in exposing the insurers' inner workings.

1:19.0

And this is about a story, it's a story about a fellow by the name of Christopher McNaughton.

1:25.1

He was a student at Penn State University and Penn State University had come up with a

1:35.6

health insurance plan for all of their students, it was through UnitedHealthcare.

1:41.6

And so Patrick was covered by this and they were high-fiving when they sold the university

1:50.0

of the policy like, hey, we're going to make a ton of money on this thing.

1:53.9

And then they discovered that they had this one problematic student, as they write in ProPublica.

2:00.0

United provided the health insurance plan for students at Penn State University was a large

2:03.9

and potentially lucrative account, lots of young healthy students paying premiums in,

2:08.2

not too many huge medical reimbursements going out. But one student was causing UnitedHealthcare

2:13.6

a lot of money. Christopher McNaughton suffered from a crippling case of ulcerative colitis,

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