UnitedHealth CEO Bashes Medicare For All

By Ariel Cohen / April 17, 2019 at 6:15 PM
Top officials from UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurer, blasted Medicare for All and other, similar public option proposals during a quarterly call with investors on Tuesday (April 16). CEO David Wichmann said Medicare for All would amount to a “wholesale disruption of American health care” and would jeopardize the relationship between patients and doctors, destabilize the health care system and limit physicians' abilities to care for their patients. He also said that moving to a Medicare for All...

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