Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
  • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Propublica just continues to put out great journalism. It seems crazy, but there is a part of this article that is basically a side note and simultaneously is also illuminating about another issue on the public mind recently:

    But there was also an Ohio OB-GYN on the national board of directors — he used to work for the Cleveland Clinic, I discovered, and now led a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. The doctor was joined at board meetings by a city prosecutor in Utah, an ex-city council member and, Williams was later told, a sergeant with an Illinois sheriff’s department. (The doctor did not respond to requests for comment. He has since left his post with the UnitedHealth subsidiary, a spokesperson for the company said.)

    This is the calibre of doctors that UHC apparently relies on to inform them how to best “enhance profits” by denying “unnecessary care”, and it’s not remotely surprising at this point.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      3 days ago

      And it’s just by saying ‘yes’ to the stories everyone else ignores. This journalist is the only one that agreed to follow up to the guy. IIRC this same thing happened to a bunch of other stories. The mainstream media just buries so much stuff. Sometimes you have to wonder what else is just stuck in a Nytimes journalist’s inbox that is just languishing.