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April 18, 2024 — Ahead of a Senate Finance Committee hearing on April 30 with the UnitedHealth Group CEO over the disastrous February Change hack, and following news that the Department of Justice is investigating the company for monopolization, the American Economic Liberties Project today released an essential new resource documenting UnitedHealth Group’s abuses of patients, independent medical practices and pharmacies.

April 16, 2024 — Despite a devastating hack to UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare subsidiary, which disrupted pharmacy and medical claims processing and sent the healthcare system into prolonged crisis this spring, UnitedHealth Group today announced profitable Q1 results and saw its shares jump over 5%. In response, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

April 16, 2024 — In response to new reporting indicating the Department of Justice Antitrust Division will file a suit challenging Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s monopoly power over live events, the Break Up Ticketmaster Coalition released the following statement.

April 16, 2024 — In response to news today that U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has signed Memoranda of Understanding with 18 bipartisan state attorneys general, which will allow states to investigate airline complaints for unfair and deceptive practices and ensure airlines must cooperate with state investigations, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

April 16, 2024 — The American Economic Liberties Project, and a coalition of 8 other advocacy groups, today sent a letter to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation of Apple’s anticompetitive abuses of dominance as a buyer in electronics supply chains, and specifically the company’s recent exclusive dealing with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).