Profiteers

Consulting Firm Lobbied For Town Hit By Climate Disaster And Fossil Fuel Group

October 11, 2026 Rachel Santarsiero, DeSmog. Educate! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Profiteers, Public Relations

Just six months after Paradise, California was laid waste by the most deadly and destructive wildfire in the state’s history — November 2018’s Camp Fire — the town’s mayor received a generous-sounding offer from a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm. “Our hearts were with you as we watched the fire unfold,” wrote Kristi Moore, managing partner of strategic development at The Ferguson Group, in a letter dated May 19, 2019. “We would like to offer our services to the Town of Paradise on a pro bono basis and become an official partner as you further develop and implement your recovery plans.”

Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices

September 15, 2026 Georgina Gustin, Portside. Educate! Farmers, Fuel Prices, Iran, Profiteers, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

As farmers grapple with soaring diesel and fertilizer prices and the Department of Agriculture yanks support for cheaper, renewable forms of energy, the agency’s chief, Brooke Rollins, is carrying millions in highly profitable oil and gas investments. In disclosure reports filed in July, Rollins indicated that she and her husband, Mark Rollins, an oil and gas industry executive, together hold as much as $2.5 million in fossil fuel investments. At least $1 million of that is in HKN II, a limited partnership with oil and gas interests in the Kurdistan region of Iraq; another $1 million, at least, is in Hillwood Energy New Ventures, which has interests in oil and gas operations in Texas, Rollins’ home state.

The Threat Of Big Insurance

June 15, 2026 David Dayen, Portside. Educate! Finance, Health Insurance, Profiteers, Working Class

Earlier this month, the California-based organization Consumer Watchdog uncovered an incredible scandal involving rideshare company Uber, which we covered on the most recent episode of my podcast Organized Money. The company pleaded to the California legislature last year that its insurance costs had spiked so much that the state needed to decrease required payouts on its mandated uninsured motorist coverage. “They literally said 45 cents out of every dollar is going to insurance,” Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, told me.

Like Midas, Our Rulers Want To Monetise Everything They Touch

June 10, 2026 Jonathan Cook, Scheer Post. Educate! Billionaires, Capitalism, Profiteers, Wars and Militarism

I am old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the wave of excitement it unleashed. With the Soviet Union consigned to the history books, the world was going to become a better, safer place. Liberals crowed that the West’s superior, democratic values had won out. Intellectuals like Francis Fukuyama wrote about the “end of history”: the triumph of free-market capitalism and a resolution of ideological struggle. Nearly half a century on, the celebratory mood of that time looks not just misplaced but positively deluded.

‘Health Care, Not Wealth Care’: Michigan Nurses Continue Strike

May 28, 2026 Luis Martinez and G. V. Bourgeois, People's World. Resistance Report Michigan, Nurses, Profiteers, Strike

Grand Blanc, Mich.igan—Anyone driving down Holly Rd. would be hard-pressed to miss the entrance to the newly acquired Henry Ford Hospital. In the eight months since Labor Day, local nurses have picketed outside with signs that read, “patient care over profits” and “it’s health care, not wealth care.” This area is no stranger to collective bargaining; Detroit, the birthplace of the United Auto Workers (UAW), is a mere hour’s drive from where these nurses are carrying out one of the longest strikes in Michigan history. Organizers for Local 332 proudly channel that history as they stand against the second-largest health system in Michigan.

Don’t Worry, Wall Street Journal, Health Insurers Are Profitable!

November 3, 2025 John Canham-Clyne, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, Profiteers, Wall Street

On October 21, Elevance Health (the rebrand of for-profit health insurer Anthem) announced its third quarter results. Operating revenue went up 12% from the same three-month period last year, and profits as measured by normal accounting rules rose 17%. UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest insurer, went one better, raising its expectations for how much profit it will make this year, as it eased Wall Street’s worries by increasing the premiums it will charge for coverage in 2026. Please let the anxious folks at the Wall Street Journal know. They’ve been so worried. Over the past year, older Americans, low-income people who enroll in private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans, and people covered by health insurance purchased from the Affordable Care Act exchanges have been doing something that private insurance companies and their Wall Street investors find disturbing: They’re actually going to the doctor and getting the healthcare they need.

John Geyman On The Growing Costs Of US Health Care

October 15, 2025 Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter. Educate! Capitalism, Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers

You know health care costs are starting to hit home when Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene raises the red flag. In a posting on Twitter last week, the Republican Congresswoman from Georgia broke from Republican leadership in the House. “I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to double, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district,” she wrote. “No I’m not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games. I’m a Republican and won’t vote for illegals to have any taxpayer funded health care or benefits.”

Meet The Low-Wage 100

August 23, 2025 Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org. Educate! Low wages, Profiteers, wealth inequality, Worker Rights

The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year. In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made last year, typical baristas would’ve had to start brewing macchiatos around the time humans first invented the wheel. Starbucks takes the prize for the most obscene corporate pay disparities of 2024. But jaw-dropping gaps are the norm among America’s leading low-wage corporations. This year’s edition of the annual Institute for Policy Studies Executive Excess report finds that CEOs of the 100 S&P 500 firms with the lowest median wages, a group we’ve dubbed the “Low-Wage 100,” have enjoyed skyrocketing pay over the past six years.

Beware Of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts

August 20, 2025 F. Douglas Stephenson, Counter Punch. Educate! Health Care, Health Insurers, Medicare Advantage, Profiteers

Gainesville, FL - When it comes to Medicare Advantage, “beware of health insurance companies bearing gifts”, just like “beware of Greeks bearing gifts”, is a phrase that serves as a cautionary warning against trusting those who may have ulterior motives, particularly when they present seemingly generous health insurance policy offers. Everyone should be aware that not all offers of help or generosity are genuine and that one should critically and thoroughly assess the intentions and specifics behind such programs and policies. The idiom is particularly relevant in situations where aggressive sales agents of health insurance companies may present themselves as allies while harboring hidden marketing and sales agendas for Medicare Advantage.

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes As Profits Soar

July 21, 2025 Veronica Riccobene and Helen Santoro, The Lever. Educate! Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers

The six largest health insurers reported more than $1 trillion in revenue and more than $31 billion in net income last year — and are now pushing to raise Americans’ premiums by as much as 66 percent for some policies, according to recent state regulatory filings. The proposed increases come as insurers dole out billions to further enrich top brass and shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. In all, Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces across the country are projected to see the largest rate hikes in more than five years, driving up out-of-pocket premiums for individual plan policyholders by more than 75 percent on average, according to data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

National Day Of Action To Demand Health Care, Not Profit

May 12, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast - Clearing The FOG health, Health Care, Medicare for all, Profiteers, Single-Payer

On May 31, a large coalition of labor and community groups is holding a nationwide day of action to demand a national single payer healthcare system. Clearing the FOG speaks with Kay Tillow, an organizer of the action and member of the leading organization, NationalSinglePayer.com. Tillow speaks about the current healthcare crisis in the United States and why it is imperative that people organize now for a solution, such as national improved Medicare for all. Tillow critiques the Medicare for All legislation that was recently introduced in both houses of Congress and what we need to do to move the bills forward.

Doctor And Patients Protest UnitedHealth’s Record Earnings

January 23, 2025 Chris Mills Rodrigo, Inequality.org. Resist! Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers, Protests, UnitedHealthcare

America’s largest health care company, the UnitedHealth Group, pulled in over $100 billion in revenue in just the fourth quarter of 2024 alone. For the full year, the giant’s insurance division, UnitedHealthcare, reported record revenue of $298.2 billion, the company announced last Thursday. These staggering revenue totals actually fell below investor expectations. UnitedHealth Group shares, right after the announcement, slipped 6 percent on the New York Stock Exchange. Meanwhile, just outside that capitalist bastion, victims of our for-profit healthcare system — doctors and patients alike — were braving freezing temperatures to call out the suffering that engineered UnitedHealth’s exorbitant earnings.

Patients Are Dying Because Of Profit-Driven Political Decisions

January 18, 2025 The Canary. Organize! Health Care, NHS, Privatization, Profiteers, United Kingdom (UK)

In 2025, campaign group EveryDoctor is stepping up its work to save the NHS from privatisation, and build a functioning, flourishing healthcare system for patients and staff alike. However, there’s work to do. The group wants to grow its following from thousands, to a vibrant patient and staff community of millions. It feels it will take nothing short of this to turn things around because: millions of people are currently being profoundly failed by politicians In short, the group aims to transform its campaign community into something more: a movement. Its ambitious goal comes amidst another spate of alarming news stories over the appalling state of things in the NHS.

Health Care Profiteers Encounter Protest At ‘Investors’ Gathering

January 16, 2025 Leon Kunstenaar, Indybay. Resist! Capitalism, Class Struggle, Health Care, Profiteers

One of the wealthiest gangsters, JP Morgan Chase Bank, convened into the posh Westin St. Francis hotel a gathering of fellow "investors" involved in the organized looting known as the "Health care" industry. Sensing public anger inspired by the recent killing of a UnitedHealthcare executive, a heavy police presence surrounded the hotel and the adjoining streets. The largest health "insurer" in the country is UnitedHealthcare. Its 2023 profit was $22 billion. Estimates of what a single payer health care system to care for every man, woman and child in the country are about $20 billion per year.

America’s Health Insurance Grinches

December 29, 2024 Lynn Parramore, Institute for New Economic Thinking. Educate! Greed, Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers

In the past two weeks, one thing has become crystal clear in America: the public outrage after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson exposed a seething fury over the health insurance racket. No amount of media finger-wagging at public perversity or partisan attempts to frame Luigi Mangione’s act as a statement from the left or right can hide the reality: the people, from all sides, are livid about the healthcare system—and with good reason. In the 21st century, Americans have expressed their view that healthcare is deteriorating, not advancing.

«1 2 3 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources