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Consumer Watchdog: UnitedHealth ‘intimidates’ workers with letter-writing campaign

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.13.09 | 9:48 am

Picture-41Minnetonka-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…

AM.MN: Passionate kiss-offs at town hall

By Chris Steller | 08.21.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoWho 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…

UnitedHealth hotline ‘urges employees to attend tea parties’

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.19.09 | 4:22 pm

Picture 4One 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…

UnitedHealth’s Bill McGuire: I’m not really a money guy; I just played one for 14 years

By Molly Priesmeyer | 06.03.08 | 11:23 am

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…

UnitedHealth CEO William McGuire’s political donations

By Leigh Pomeroy | 10.16.06 | 12:54 pm

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