That's insane. The archive link isn't working for me so I can't read the article, but we received a letter that any long term prescriptions might need to go through Optum and that we'd only be able to fill a few at a local pharmacy before the refused to cover them.
I was a bit flabbergasted as that didn't seem like it could possibly be legal.
By the way - that's absolutely not great if you have controlled medications, as you need to sign for them and can't exactly get them filled early. I take three different ones. Luckily my wife and I work from home.
Yeah, that's laugh-out-loud levels of bullshit.
You think executives are just going to admit to facilitating what effectively is a form of racketeering?
NINJA EDIT: The Optum arm itself needs to be broken up into a bunch of smaller pieces. United Healthcare also needs to be broken up.