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Inside UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage

[Annie Waldman at ProPublica] UnitedHealth Group has been using an algorithm to determine whether patients have been receiving "too much" therapy and then cutting them off: "Around 2016, government officials began to pry open United’s black box. They found that the nation’s largest health insurance

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Moderate drinking not better for health than abstaining, analysis suggests

[Ian Sample in The Guardian] "England’s former chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has said there is no safe level of alcohol intake. A major study published in 2018 supported the view. It found that alcohol led to 2.8 million deaths in 2016 and was the leading

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Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines

[Chris Bing and Joel Schechtman at Reuters] "The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and