Hey there. I had a story in mind that I thought was going to be both an incredible story and kind of

a light lift and it turns out I was right about one of those things. It's going to be an amazing

story, but it is a bigger story than we thought. More complicated than I knew in more ways than one

and we're going to need some more time to dig in. So I'm going to ask you to come back in a few

weeks for that. Meanwhile, may I recommend a story from the good folks at ProPublica,

one that's related to a story we did here a few months ago. You might remember we talked recently

about United Health Group, which has grown into a behemoth in recent years and that story started

with a tip from a doctor in New York named Alex Steinslaker. He had gotten an offer from a

United subsidiary, a line of credit to help with his cash flow or as he called it a payday loan

at a steep interest rate, which he thought was pretty rich since a big reason doctors have trouble

with cash flow is that insurers like United Health Care, the way paying them. In other words,

sounded like a payday loan from your boss. Oh, I'm going to pay you late, but I could loan you the

money and keep a little interest for myself like 35%. Here's how Dr. Alex Steinslaker responded to

that. That's an incredible business plan. You have to be really creative to come up with that

business idea. You also have to have steel bowls to actually propose that publicly.

And as you might recall, when we dug in, that story checked out. But when I talked with Dr.

Steinslaker, he had a lot of other allegations too. For instance, that insurers were doing something

that seemed illegal, but the feds didn't have any process for taking complaints about it.

And I would ask him things like, do you have any documentation that you could share about that?

I probably do. I would love to see that. But you know what? I didn't follow up because

I'm just one guy and Dr. Alex Steinslaker had more tips that would need to be backed up with a ton

of reporting than I could possibly run down. But now, somebody has run down at least one of them

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