Welcome Friends and Family to United for Health Reform

This is a critical time in the debate over how to improve health care in the United States.  As the nation’s leading health and wellbeing company, trusted by over 70 million Americans to fund and manage their care, we are actively and constructively engaged in this effort.

UnitedHealth Group has a responsibility to be actively contributing ideas and practical solutions to this debate.  As citizens of this nation, we each have a responsibility to remain informed and engaged on a subject so important to us all.

We are pleased that you are here.  We encourage you to take advantage of the resources and tools provided on this website to better educate yourself on how to make your voice heard and share your practical know-how and point of view for the sake of achieving the goal of bipartisan and comprehensive health reform.  As is consistent with UnitedHealth Group’s mission and values, we encourage you to bring your expertise to bear in local community discussions and we once again emphasize that your participation should be collegial, collaborative, and respectful of the process of informed discourse.

Thank you in advance for your participation.

Latest Updates on Health Reform

April 20, 2010
UHG to extend the health coverage that graduating college students currently have under their parents’ plans until the new health reform provision requiring dependent coverage up to age 26 is fully implemented. NPR: Big Health Insurers Have A Gift For College Grads - Insurance giant United HealthCare said it would implement, as of today, a requirement of the new… More
April 2, 2010
An Overview of the New Health Care Law Download the Presentation More
March 19, 2010
Webinar: Rising Costs of Health Care Hosted by Jud Sommer, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, UnitedHealth Group and Simon Stevens, Chairman, UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform… More
March 4, 2010
UnitedHealth Group's perspective on rising health care costs, which is informed by our experience as well as by studies and analyses from government and… More
November 30, 2009
National Spotlight Senate Releases Merged Health Reform Bill and Passes “Motion to Proceed” On November 18th, leadership in the Senate released… More

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Quick Facts... on Health Care Modernization

  • About 160 million Americans currently receive health coverage through their employer, and a strong majority of Americans with health benefits are happy with their personal care and coverage.
  • 17 percent of the population has limited or no access to health care.
  • Health care is now 18% of the U.S. economy- that’s over 6 percentage points higher than most other industrialized countries.