UnitedHealth used their profits to pay out $11.2 billion directly to its investors during the first 9 months of 2026. This was split between $5 billion spent on stock buybacks to boost their value and $6.2 billion paid out as cash dividends. What does it say about our nation's healthcare system that a handful of bigwigs and predatory middlemen can extract over $10 billion in under a year and pocket it for their own private profits? How many claims were denied to make that possible? How many innocent Americans had to suffer? These massive profits rely on automated claim denials or strict prior authorization rules, which delay and block medically necessary treatment. How many vulnerable patients were subjected to emotional and financial stress in their time of need so UnitedHealth can make these profits? Taking billions of dollars out of our healthcare system and funneling it to wealthy investors is a cruel and immoral heist. They are stealing essential resources away from places where that money is needed most like direct clinical care, patient access, and lowering out-of-pocket costs for patients. Maximizing returns as a health insurer means generating worse patient outcomes. Americans are suffering and dying in preventable ways to make a few people richer. This is some serial killer shit. It doesn't have to be this way.

Roughly 500 people who are detained are on a hunger strike to protest the poor living conditions at an ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia. Participants in the strike published a letter citing lack of clean water, dirty facilities, inadequate medical care, and prolonged detention. One person's wife says the GEO-operated facility retaliated against her husband for participating in the hunger strike by placing him in solitary. This is one of the largest coordinated hunger strikes inside an ICE facility in years. The actual participation rate is disputed, but it's hard to know what the real number is for sure because of the lack of transparency going on inside these concentration camps. It's inspiring to witness this collective courage and resistance from people who came from all around the world like Latin America, South Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, etc. uniting inside a concentration camp to go on strike. They are far more American than any of the gestapo thugs who trafficked them into these camps.