UnitedHealth Will Be a Top Beneficiary of Trump’s Project 2025

peoplesaction.org ^ | October 15, 2024 | peoplesaction.org

[ransomnote]

[H/T azkathy]

Reports it took over $6 Billion in profit out of healthcare for Wall Street in Q3 2024 release. Trump’s Project 2025 would DOUBLE UnitedHealth’s privatized Medicare revenue and profit.

Due to Trump’s Project 2025 implementation

• The number of people denied care by UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage plans would jump to 5.2 million people annually.
• UnitedHealthcare would likely take in $274 billion annually from privatized Medicare alone. 
• UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, would likely gain more revenue and profit due to Project 2025 implementation than any other health corporation.

Summary: UnitedHealth would be one of the largest financial beneficiaries of Project 2025, since it is the largest private health insurance corporation in America, the 4th largest company in the country, and the largest writer of privatized Medicare Advantage plans, with 7.8 million people insured through a UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plan. Because of UnitedHealth’s massive scale, the harm it causes through its denials of care is unprecedented – whether through prior authorization denials, claim denials, and inadequate networks that prevent beneficiaries from receiving care or increase the financial strain of receiving care. UnitedHealth would be empowered by Trump’s Project 2025 to harm more Americans than virtually any other private corporation, other than fossil fuel companies, that benefits from his plan. 

Trump’s Project 2025 lays the groundwork for the eventual complete privatization of Medicare: it plans to “Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option,” despite the fact that privatized Medicare costs the public more than traditional public Medicare. 

Under this plan, people who are sick or injured will stay sick longer, even dying while UnitedHealthcare and other privatized Medicare plans delay or deny their treatment. Millions more people who get the treatment they need will be wrongly stuck with bills that force them to choose between rent or medicine and debt collectors. 

[higgmeister]

So you really are trying to be a comedian then?

The article was posted because it is about a group that might possibly indicate an armed assassin is in cahoots with them.   That warrants a discussion on this forum.   No more and no less.

[Mr. K]

We don’t learn anything new if we only post things we agree with.

[wildcard_redneck]

You’re right, I didn’t see your initial comment because it looked like part of the header of the post itself. My apologies.

[azkathy]

You are spot on. I don’t agree with them but I feel like they might be the agitators.