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  <updated>2008-07-24T09:12:05-04:00</updated>
  <entry>
    <title>Today&#039;s single payer post: UnitedHealth&#039;s imploding business model</title>
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    <published>2008-07-24T09:12:05-04:00</published>
    <updated>2008-07-24T09:12:05-04:00</updated>
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      <name>DCblogger</name>
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    <category term="In Sickness and In Health" />
    <category term="corporate evil" />
    <category term="health insurance" />
    <category term="single payer" />
    <category term="UnitedHealth Group" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="http://www.startribune.com/business/25784509.html?location_refer=Business:highlightModules:6">UnitedHealth income off 73%</a></p>
<blockquote><p>On July 2, the company said it would pay $895 million to settle a class-action lawsuit led by the California Public Employees Retirement System. It also said it was cutting 4,000 jobs nationally, or just under 6 percent of its workforce, and reduced its forecast 2008 profit for the second time.</p>
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<p>The legal problems will just keep growing:<br />
<a href="http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2008/feb/feb13a_08.html">CUOMO ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY-WIDE INVESTIGATION INTO HEALTH INSURERS’ FRAUDULENT REIMBURSEMENT SCHEME</a></p>
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