Unitedhealth

Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group is again dipping its toes in political waters by involving its employees in the health care debate. It emailed its 75,000 workers Tuesday urging them to contact their senators with concerns about health care reform. Form letters provided to employees, obtained by California-based Consumer Watchdog, claim that “Government-run health care will result [...]

Who needs high school football or rock festivals when congressional constituents can get rowdy together at a town hall meeting? People in the First District gave a clinic in civic (and by all accounts civil) boisterousness at U.S. Rep. Tim Walz’s health care forum Thursday night. Passion was in fashion, with one speaker telling Walz [...]

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.

In today’s big consumer news, former UnitedHealth CEO Bill McGuire has come up with a flimsy new defense for the backdated stock options that turned him into a billionaire and resulted in a lawsuit filed by UnitedHealth’s shareholders. McGuire’s lawyers now claim he didn’t realize the $1.56 billion downward restatement of earnings he received was [...]

Records show McGuire and wife gave exclusively to GOP candidates

Cross-posted at Vox Verax.

Dr. William McGuire, long-time CEO of UnitedHealth, headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, will retire under pressure by December 1, 2006, following an investigation of the backdating of the company’s stock options. According to MPR, “McGuire is one of the country’s highest paid executives, having [...]