Emma Freer

RT @BalanceCrafting: Big Tech companies are not the only rent-seekers who run crying to the Constitution every other day Today, the Third…

RT @IMAKglobal: 🚨NEW: Our new brief exposes how Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's financialized business model drives them to abuse the patent s…

"The company is motivated financially to maintain its monopoly as long as it can, to preserve its ability to charge higher prices as long as it can. [...] And there are patients who are being harmed in the meantime.” https://t.co/ie0HaAG5ts

RT @dorajfacundo: NEW — UnitedHealth Group still under DOJ monopolization investigation, but resource constraints are delaying the timing o…

My colleague @helaineolen on why Rite Aid's (second) bankruptcy is "an instructional tale about a mismanaged company that was so fatally weakened it couldn’t survive amid the increasing consolidation of health care in the U.S." https://t.co/zQdkTdnB7G

RT @RethinkTrade: "The last few months have been a master class on how to screw up tariffs... It’s hard to describe just how frustrating it…

"Collectively, the four biggest pharmacy benefit managers raked in $150 billion in revenue in the first three months of 2025, reflecting higher spending on medications." https://t.co/dvjSFG6zWc

RT @_APCI: “We are out of control of our own pricing. They can lower it down to whatever they want, and in the last year they lowered it do…

RT @SenWarren: One year ago, Steward Health Care went bankrupt.   I'm not letting CEO Ralph de la Torre and his corporate enablers off the…

RT @bobjherman: Turns out hospital parking is a helluva business. https://t.co/C5yjD75XSn https://t.co/QRGbvT23r1

RT @ysingh_phd: Among other reforms, MA is the first state to effectively ban sale-leasebacks, a strategy often used by PE firms investing…

RT @kmccor2014: First they underpay you. Then they put your pharmacy out of business. Now they want to hire you. They created the problem.…

"A broken system of [public] funds disappearing into middlemen’s bank accounts as local pharmacies close their doors needs an injection of basic fairness and common sense." https://t.co/I3KdhotKDt

RT @EPotterMD: Did you know that the largest employer of physicians in the United States is United Health Group? Did you know that 75% of…

"Lawmakers viewed the chaos caused by the cyberattack as a result of United’s seemingly insatiable desire to buy up companies like Change... The widespread disruption was a reminder of how deeply United ... had become embedded in the nation’s health care system."

Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter

My latest for @NYTimes: UnitedHealth’s Move to End Cyberattack Loan Lifeline Upsets Medical Providers The company lent roughly $9 billion to practices affected by a vast cyberattack on its payment systems last year. Medical practices are now suing the health care colossus, https://t.co/I7jBxGlFvd

RT @Hayrook: MSOs—the obscure legal entities that enable private equity & corporate ownership of medical practices—are facing growing scrut…

RT @matthewstoller: This is f'ing gruesome. Aetna and Humana were bribing insurance brokers to so they wouldn't send disabled people to enr…