by Dear readers,
I am very happy to share the news today that four Stat reporters have won the George W. Polk Award, one of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, for their series emphasizes how Unitedhealth Group uses its unparalleled doctor -empire to make it to increase his profit and expand his influence.
Long before the murder of a top manager last December, extraordinary interest in United Health, reporters Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross and Lizzy Lawrence and their editors acknowledged that the completitive behavior and rise of the conglomerate of the conglomerate as a modern oil set it Apart from and earned months of our research focus.
When granting the Polk for Health Care Reporting, the judges said that the “Health Care’s Colossus” of Stat “was a penetrating six -part series that investigated the enormous reach of UnitedHealth Group into each aspect of a broken health care system. How the conglomerate the system milks for profit at the expense of taxpayers, patients and clinicians by offering assembly line care that treats millions of patients as products that must be monitored. “
This is the third Polk Award from Stat in the past five years. Helen Branswell won for the public service for its cautious reporting from COVID-19; The team of Matthew Reper, Adam Feuerstein and Damian Garde won in the Medical Report category for their research, which showed that Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval for controversial treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
John Darnton, curator of the Polk Awards, said that the winners announced today reflected “exceptional and sometimes remarkable reports” and “represent the best of the best”.
We also learned last week that the Colossus series is a finalist in another prestigious competition, the National Magazine Awards, in the Public Interest category. Stat is also a finalist for general excellence between special interest publications.
When shock waves from Washington rattle the world of health and science, Stat’s tough and authoritative reports of DC, throughout the country, and in Europe is more essential than ever. In recent days we have broken the story after the story, including the Trump administration that intends to beat thousands of jobs in health care, the expected devastation of a ‘crown jewel’ of public health and consequences for the health of every American.
Day after day, new subscribers come to our site in record numbers for these stories.
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To get a taste behind the scenes of how we see our mission on Stat, I hope you will watch this video in which I interview the four award-winning reporters about how they produced the Colossus series. You will understand why I am so proud of what they have achieved.
I promise you that we are steadfast in our determination to continue to deliver the most impactful journalism about political forces, power brokers, personalities and technologies that influence the health of each of us.
