Everyone should have the health care they need, when and where they need it. Yet too often, when people get sick, their private health insurance refuses to pay for their care. The largest health insurance corporation, UnitedHealthcare, is one of the worst actors when it comes to denying care. They reported $22.4 billion dollars in profits in 2023 alone! And they make most of their money off of our tax dollars through privatized Medicare and Medicaid.

People’s Action’s Care Over Cost campaign brought 100 people to meet with UnitedHealth Group executives to discuss our demands and they refused. Recently, UnitedHealth Group’s payment system was hacked and they stopped paying hospitals and doctors, so the U.S. Senate Finance Committee is calling in parent company CEO Sir Andrew Witty to testify. Paying their bills is important but we want to make sure that the senators also demand that Witty stop delaying and denying people’s care.

As one of our action participants, Bebhinn Francis with Citizen Action of New York, said, “Health care is a human right and we’re not gonna take it anymore. We’re here to fight.”

We need our elected officials to fight for us, too. Tell senators on the Finance Committee to ask Witty about UHC’s systemic delays and denials of care.