Comments on: UnitedHealth hotline ‘urges employees to attend tea parties’

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:23:53 +0000

I am laughing so hard I hope you’ll forgive any typos. Jeff and Lisa above scream out that the Washington Post never reported on the Lewin groups nefarious activities. A red herring……….. the facts are that Lewin paid $50 million to settle with the NY attorney general and $300 million to settle with the American Medical Association for doing exactly what this article reports.

Here is the link to the American Medical News that reports the entire story:

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/01/26/bil10126.htm

Whether the Post reported is irrelevant. A misattributed source does not erase the facts.

By: Rmath

Rmath — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:25:44 +0000

What else can you expect from the company that allowed Bill McGuire to line his pockets with hundreds of millions of dollars during his brief tenure at United?

By: T-Paw Is A Jerk

T-Paw Is A Jerk — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:36:58 +0000

Another example of the right wing organizing people to attend these meetings and pretend to be a grass roots movement. How phoney!

The only true grass roots movements are on the left side of the fence. We don’t stoop so low as to send out mass e-mails and tell employees or organization members to attend and protest.

By: pb

pb — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:23:33 +0000

Huh? It’s a direct quote Jeff/Lisa. Follow the link.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:07:53 +0000

“Last month, the Washington Post reported that the Lewin Group was “accused by the New York attorney general…”

The Washington Post reported no such thing. If you can’t get your facts straight, don’t bother writing this crap.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:49:32 +0000

“Last month, the Washington Post reported that the Lewin Group was “accused by the New York attorney general and the American Medical Association of helping insurers shift medical expenses to consumers by distributing skewed data.”

That is completely false. The Post reported no such thing.

By: Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. » UnitedHealth hotline urges employees to attend tea parties - Political Context | Politiculous

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:20:01 +0000

[...] Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. » UnitedHealth hotline urges employees to attend tea … UnitedHealth hotline urges employees to attend tea parties By PAUL SCHMELZER 8/19/09 4:22 PM One of the country’s largest health insurers, Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group, is enlisting its employees in its campaign about health care reform. According to Talking Points Memo, the company’s advocacy hotline is helping employees write notes to members of Congress and, in at least one case, a hotline operator encouraged a caller to attend tea parties. [...]