UnitedHealthcare slaps HCA with antitrust suit

United Healthcare has become the 1000# gorilla in health care. They have excluded hospitals and labs because they will not agree to reimbursement below cost. This appears to be a deliberate plan to pit labsand hospitalsagainst each other to improve their bottom line at the expense of patients. Why are there no professional groups willing to stand up to the gorilla? They think that the hospitals and labs can be pressured into accepting reimbursement below cost and force the hospitals and labs into trying to make up the difference by getting profitable business from Medicare and other profitable insurance. If they succeed, are the physicians going to be asked to do the same thing and take a cut in reimbursemnt next year if they want to continue to be a provider for UHC? There is no way for a physician to make up providing service at below cost by increasing Medicare and Medicaid participation. Does it smell a liitle rotten for LabCorp to pay $200 million to United Healthcare to become the exclusive laboratory for Untide?

I'd like to see them destroy each other. Both are despicable.