Dear reader,
I’m excited to share the news that the four statistical reporters have today Winner of George W. Polk Awardone of the most prestigious honors in American journalism, for their series, which highlights how UnitedHealth Group can wield an unparalleled empire to boost profits and expand influence.
Long before the killing of the top executives last December sparked extraordinary interest in United Health, reporters Bob Herman, Tara Banow, Casey Ross, Lizzie Lawrence and his editors have been the anti-competitive conglomerate It has been recognized that behavior and its emergence as modern standard oil is setting it away from the focus of our research for months.
When awarding the Polk to Health Care Reporting, judges stated that Stat’s “Health Care’s Colossus” is a “a six-part series of penetration examining the large scale of the UnitedHealth Group into every aspect of the broken health system.” I did. The series is how to milk systems for profit by offering conglomerate line care where conglomerates treat millions of patients as monetized products at the expense of taxpayers, patients and clinicians. It focuses on. ”
This is Stat’s third pork award in the last five years. Helen Branswell won in public service with visionary reporting on Covid-19. The teams of Matthew Herper, Adam Feuerstein and Damian Garde revealed that Biogen has used the FDA back channel to obtain approval for a controversial treatment for Alzheimer’s disease did.
Polk Awards curator John Darnton said the winners announced today reflect “exceptional and occasionally surprising reports” and “the best and best representatives.”
Also last week I learned that the Colossus series is a finalist in the National Magazine Awards, another well-known competition in the public interest category. Stat is also a finalist of outstanding excellence among publications of special interest.
As shockwaves from Washington rattle the world of health and science, Stat’s harsh, prestigious reporting in DC, across the nation and Europe is more important than ever. Over the past few days we have broken a broken story after the story. This is planned to include thousands of healthcare jobs, the expected devastation of the “crown jewel” of public health, and the consequences for all Americans’ health.
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I hope you see this to get a behind-the-scenes taste of how we see our mission in statistics Video interviewing four award-winning reporters How they created the Colossus series. You will understand why I am so proud of what they have accomplished.
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