Largest Insurer Pressured Employees to Fight Public Option

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group held a webinar to pressure its rank-and-file employees to mobilize against efforts in Connecticut to create a state-level public health insurance option, according to a video of the presentation we obtained.

“It does sound like it’s just an option. But the problem is that it would exist on an unlevel playing field with private insurance,” Mishael Azam, a UnitedHealth Group VP of external affairs, told employees on the February 24 webinar. “The public option really is the path to single-payer, where there is really no private option left.”

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