SEIU is behind it, and I can assure you from having seen them operate in the healthcare arena, they are pure and unmitigated evil.
The article called the orgaization SEIU/UHW, meaning United Health West. I have dealt with UH through the military healthcare system, i.e., Tricare when they took the bid from Health Net a few years ago during the Obama administration with a $200 million bid more than Health Net gave the government. Problem was that Obama was the mouthpiece for UHC back in Chicago prior to his political aspirations and I can promise you he pulled some strings for them to get the western region for the military health care system.
UHC immediately hired Health Net to run their computer systems for them because they had never done military healthcare before and didn’t have the computer capacity or the programs to do it. They also got cheap and talked the military into allowing them to pull the service centers out of the medical facilities and did everything by fax or phone. So when you had a problem, you had another problem trying to get help as you had no one directly to talk to and the military was handcuffed.
Health Net has rebid and won the contract back along with additional work as the Tricare system conus has gone from four regions to three. And their systems wee already in place. But the service centers that were in the facilities before the bid are still not required. Just as expensive, and no direct service. Thanks United.
rwood