This is part 1 of Health Care's Colossus, a series about how UnitedHealth Group wields its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and ... health care in the United States.

But because their profits aren't growing, their investors aren't happy: Shares of UnitedHealth, CVS Health, and other large health care conglomerates have fallen this year, while the overall ...

amid a health care cost surge that includes costly new GLP-1 medications for diabetes and weight loss. Those $41.4 billion profits from the first year of COVID are so far in the rearview mirror ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage ... and the complicated U.S. health care system have been simmering for years among patients.