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Patrick Rucker, Capitol Report

Patrick Rucker is a reporter covering finance for Capitol Forum and a ProPublica contributor. He's previously reported for the Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times, and Reuters.

Inside UnitedHealthcare’s effort to deny coverage to chronically ill patient

By: David Armstrong, ProPublica, Patrick Rucker, Capitol Report and Maya Miller, ProPublica - February 3, 2023

This story was originally published by ProPublica In May 2021, a nurse at UnitedHealthcare called a colleague to share some welcome news about a problem the two had been grappling with for weeks. United provided the health insurance plan for students at Penn State University. It was a large and potentially lucrative account: lots of […]

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