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Eden Prairie-based UnitedHealth Group has engaged in a widespread campaign to quash criticism, according to a The New York Times investigation. The findings suggest that the company used legal threats to impede news sources and activists from publishing negative information about the company. The Times investigation began with a tip that a docuseries critical of the healthcare industry was taken off of Amazon and Vimeo after a law firm working with UnitedHealth Group sent a letter claiming defamation. The filmmaker, Mary Strause, had helped manage pharmacies and was hoping to shed light on drug industry middlemen, including UnitedHealth subsidiary Optum Rx.  

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The journalist David Enrich has an excellent piece out in The New York Times about UnitedHealth’s legal quest to silence speech criticizing the company. Since the murder of executive Brian Thompson last year, UnitedHealth has invoked Thompson’s death to try to get critical coverage of the company removed or censored from news outlets, on streaming services, and across social media. Amazon and Vimeo both removed a docuseries that harshly criticized the U.S. health care industry after pressure from UnitedHealth. The Guardian also postponed publishing an investigation after UnitedHealth sued over a previous article. In the past few months alone, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor, activists and more. From David’s article : In early January, Dr. Elisabeth Potter, a plastic surgeon in Austin, Texas, posted a self-made video on TikTok and Instagram that described how she had interrupted breast-reconstruction surgery to respond to a phone call from UnitedHealth about whether the insurer would cover a patient’s stay at a hospital. The call had come to the operating room’s phone line, leading her to believe it was urgent. “Insurance is out of control,” Dr. Potter said in the video. “I have no other

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