Demand Progress

The Department of Justice (DOJ) just launched its Task Force on Health Care Monopolies and Collusion to crack down on anticompetitive practices in the health care industry.¹ It builds on the Biden administration’s work to protect consumers and patients from mega-corporations profiteering off our health care — mega-corporations like UnitedHealth Group.

UnitedHealth Group has rapidly become the largest health care conglomerate in the country.² It controls a large share of the health insurance market and is rapidly buying up medical care facilities. This has allowed the giant corporation to make money off of every aspect of the health care industry, incentivizing a focus on profit over patient care.

That’s why the DOJ launched an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth.³ One giant corporation should not have so much control over health insurance AND health care providers in America.

Sign the petition: Urge the DOJ to halt UnitedHealth’s runaway corporate growth! Break up UnitedHealth’s health care monopoly!

The DOJ investigation comes as UnitedHealth is rapidly buying up doctors’ practices and outpatient surgery centers.⁴

The corporation is trying to get bigger and bigger and gain more control over the costs of health insurance and care, which will make executives richer, jack up the cost of getting care, and sacrifice patient care. This is corporate greed at its worst!

UnitedHealth must be held accountable and its health care monopoly must be broken up!

Add your name: Patients over corporate profits! Urge the DOJ to stop UnitedHealth.

Sources:

1. Bloomberg News, “Health-Care Collusion Task Force Sets Stage for DOJ Enforcement,” June 13, 2024.
2. CNBC, “How UnitedHealth Group grew bigger than the nation’s biggest banks,” May 20, 2023.
3. Reuters, “US launches antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth, WSJ reports,” February 27, 2024.
4. Stat News, “UnitedHealth is on a buying spree of outpatient surgery centers,” March 11, 2024.