I really can't believe that there are People all around the world who have helped governments impose the will of their government on fellow citizens. It is shameful and they should be ashamed but, they're not! They showed which side they are on.
@WallStreetApes@shotgunner101 We need to start exposing the contractors installing these types of cameras too. Let’s let everyone know who is contributing to the mass surveillance.
UnitedHealth is the best healthcare company in America.
I mean that. They are the best at the thing our system actually pays for. And our system doesn't pay you to get people well. It pays you to make them sicker on paper. United just runs that play better than anyone in the business.
The newest proof is out of Massachusetts. On May 29, AG Andrea Joy Campbell filed a 66-page complaint in Suffolk Superior Court accusing UnitedHealthcare of bilking MassHealth out of at least $100 million by making poor, elderly patients look sicker than they were. For a decade. January 2015 through December 2025.
MassHealth's Senior Care Options program covers about 75,000 dual-eligible seniors — the people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, which means the poorest and the sickest in the system. The state doesn't pay per visit. It pays a flat monthly rate per member, and that rate climbs with how sick the insurer says the member is. Three tiers. In 2025: Level 1 paid ~$1,300/month. Level 2 (behavioral health or substance use) ~$1,800. Level 3 (needs daily skilled nursing) ~$4,300.
Now look at the incentive. Move one patient from Level 1 to Level 3 and you collect about $36,000 more a year — for typing a sentence. You never have to send the nurse. The payment is keyed to the diagnosis, not to any care that follows it. United insures about 25,000 of those 75,000 people, more than anyone else in the program.
So what did the state find when it actually checked the paperwork against the billing records?
It pulled 88,696 assessments. In 99.3% of them, United told Massachusetts the patient was getting a skilled nurse seven days a week. Then they looked at the billing data. For 89.47% of those same patients, there was no nursing visit at all in the week before the assessment was signed. Not a reduced schedule. None. The nurse on the bill simply did not exist.
The state says United was paid roughly $1.4 billion for members it claimed needed daily or near-daily skilled nursing who didn't qualify for it.
And it wasn't just the nursing tier. The AG's office found that nearly 30% of United's behavioral-health assessments from 2014–2024 had no matching medical claim to back up the depression or anxiety diagnosis they'd reported to the state. The code was on the chart, generating the bigger check — but there was no therapist, no prescription, none of the things a real diagnosis produces. Just the code and the bill.
One patient in the complaint had Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and arthritis, all managed with over-the-counter painkillers. The filing says she showed "complete independence." United classified her higher anyway and billed the state for five years. The overcharge on that one woman: $133,000. She never knew it happened.
Here's the part that turns it from sloppy coding into fraud. Coding mistakes happen. But back in 2018, MassHealth ran its own audit — pulled 30 of United's Level 3 charts and found 16 of them, more than half, weren't supported by the records. United reviewed those members internally and quietly downgraded them on its own books. So they SAW the problem and fixed it where it cost them nothing. What they never did was tell the state, or give back a dime of the money they'd already collected. Under the Massachusetts False Claims Act, knowingly keeping money you know you weren't owed is its own violation — which is why the $100 million can be tripled. $300 million.
Why would a company do this on purpose? Because the documents show people inside knew exactly what the plan was producing. United's own files described the Massachusetts SCO plan as "a strong financially performing program" with margins as high as 8%. The state paid United more than $5 billion over the period in question. A $100 million overcharge is about 2% of that — except an overpayment for care nobody delivered has no cost attached, so almost all of it lands straight on the bottom line.
The pressure traces right up the org chart. Bernadette Di Re ran United's Massachusetts plan from 2011 to 2020. She testified she resigned over pressure from corporate to grow membership, cut costs, "cut staff," "get more numbers," and "get more money from the state." Heather Cianfrocco, who oversaw United's Medicaid business, "publicly lambasted" her for missing financial targets. Nurses were told to assess patients on their "worst days" instead of their actual condition. And because United chronically understaffed those nurses, the assessments got copied and pasted from one patient onto another — wrong diagnoses and all — because an overworked nurse "would not have to complete as many member assessments if they represented that the members had more serious health conditions." Code the patient sicker, finish faster, move on. The state's own phrase for the whole arrangement was "growth at all costs."
And before anyone says Massachusetts caught one rogue plan — five months earlier, in January 2026, the DOJ announced Kaiser affiliates would pay $556 million to settle nearly identical Medicare Advantage upcoding claims, the largest of its kind. Federal investigators estimate that diagnoses appearing ONLY on health risk assessments — with no other medical record behind them — drove $7.5 billion in Medicare Advantage payments in 2023 alone, touching 1.7 million people. A Senate investigation built on 50,000 pages of internal United documents found the company captured more diagnosis codes, and more federal money, than any other MA insurer. United is now under both civil and criminal DOJ investigation.
This is the same playbook everywhere you look. In Medicare Advantage, coding a patient with diabetes is worth about $1,200 more a year. Add vascular disease, $3,600. If you're on prescribed opioids and taking them exactly as directed, no withdrawal, no problem, they can label you "physically dependent" to grab the code. After CMS reinstated one diagnosis in 2020, United magically found 11.5% more cases of it.
It's fraudulent. It's offensive. And it's also just… what they're paid to do. We built a system that pays more for sicker people, and then we act surprised when the biggest player makes people sicker on paper. United, for its part, calls the suit "meritless." A judge will sort that out.
Here's the line that actually matters for you, though.
The defense in every one of these cases rests on a real distinction: documenting a patient's genuine conditions is legal. Inventing conditions that don't exist is not. The fight is over which side of that line the records fall on. But notice what makes the whole thing possible — the same company gets to decide how sick you are AND gets paid more when the answer is "very." They grade their own homework.
Secretary Kennedy has started trying to flip the incentive by paying to reduce the care or medication a patient needs. It's an interesting idea and probably a necessary one. But I'll be honest with you: I don't think any incentive scheme designed in Washington is going to put you first. The person most likely to actually look out for your health is the provider you choose to trust, the one in the room with you, whose name is on the result. It's your life on the line. The system is looking out for itself. You should do the same.
So when you decide where your healthcare money goes, ask the plain question: are you autopaying a company that profits when you look sicker, or are you paying the people who actually care whether you get well?
What the doctor says vs what it actually means.
“Your LDL is high.”
What it means: Your body is producing more of the molecule it uses to repair tissue, make hormones, and carry fat-soluble vitamins to your cells. That is biology doing its job.
“LDL is the bad cholesterol.”
What it means: LDL is a lipoprotein. A transport vehicle. It carries cholesterol to the cells that need it. There is no bad cholesterol. There is only cholesterol doing its job.
“You are at increased cardiovascular risk.”
What it means: A population-level risk calculator produced a percentage. It does not know your insulin level, your inflammation markers, or your LDL particle size. It knows your age and your total cholesterol number.
“Statins will reduce your risk by 50 percent.”
What it means: Your relative risk drops by 50 percent. Your absolute risk drops by around 1 percent. These are not the same number. One of them is used in the consultation. Malcolm Kendrick documents this distinction in Doctoring Data.
“Statins are well tolerated.”
What it means: Known side effects include muscle damage, fatigue, memory problems, and raised blood sugar. Well tolerated means most people stay on them.
“This is the standard of care.”
What it means: This is what the guidelines say. The guidelines were written by committees where financial conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies are well documented.
The doctor is not lying. They are following a protocol. The protocol is the problem.
Did your doctor explain the difference between relative risk and absolute risk before they wrote that prescription?
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I'm curious how many of us are unvaxxed & never got covid? Is there a correlation between unvaxxed/never infected vs vaxxed & multiple infections of covid. I'm unvaxxed and never got covid. Feel free to give your opinion.
@RedpillDrifter@PunishDem1776 I've been saying this for years! nobody ever believes me. They've been brainwashed that one is better than the other. Insane!