{"id":2961,"date":"2026-08-19T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:27:14","slug":"insurance-profits-why-we-need-collective-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2026\/08\/19\/insurance-profits-why-we-need-collective-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Profits: Why we need collective action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know what we are up against and why what we do is so important, just review these articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2026\/08\/03\/unitedhealth-joins-amazon-among-the-worlds-revenue-giants?utm_source=email&#038;utm_medium=enl&#038;utm_campaign=daily&#038;utm_content=08042026&#038;oly_enc_id=3669J4002934C8W\" target=\"_blank\">UnitedHealth joins Amazon among the world\u2019s revenue giants<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/rankings-and-ratings\/31-top-healthcare-organizations-on-the-fortune-global-500\/\" target=\"_blank\">31 top healthcare organizations on the Fortune Global 500<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UnitedHealthcare is the 4th-largest company in the world, after Amazon, Walmart and China\u2019s state owned utility, State Grid. In 2025, United had revenues of $446.6 billion, or $1.23 billion per day. CVS\/Aetna is 9th on the list, Cigna is 21st, and Elevance (Anthem) is 31st. This is why people feel so alone in this fight, and why it is important that we show to those who need help that \u201cyou are not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Patients-Union_Logo_Holding-Shape_Circle_Black.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Patients-Union_Logo_Holding-Shape_Circle_Black-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2964\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nD. Brian Hufford<br \/>\nSenior Legal Advisor to The Patients Union<br \/>\nThe Hufford Law Firm PLLC<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:dbhufford@huffordlawfirm.org\" target=\"_blank\">dbhufford@huffordlawfirm.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/healthinsuranceappeals.org\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/healthinsuranceappeals.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know what we are up against and why what we do is so important, just review these articles: UnitedHealth joins Amazon among the world\u2019s revenue giants 31 top healthcare organizations on the Fortune Global 500 UnitedHealthcare is the 4th-largest company in the world, after Amazon, Walmart and China\u2019s state owned utility, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}