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What Next | Why United Healthcare Is Easy to Hate

What Next | Why United Healthcare Is Easy to Hate

Update: 2024-12-10
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Last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO prompted an outpouring of glee online. A look into UnitedHealthcare’s business practices—and the American healthcare system as a whole—can help explain why.


Guest: Dan Diamond, national health reporter for The Washington Post.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. 

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