{"id":9281,"date":"2025-12-22T23:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/health-care-inc-newsletter-most-important-stories-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:03:22","slug":"health-care-inc-newsletter-most-important-stories-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/health-care-inc-newsletter-most-important-stories-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Your health care industry 2025, wrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Your health care industry 2025, wrapped<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This is the online version of STAT\u2019s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/health-care-inc\/\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello, dear readers. This is the last Health Care Inc. of 2025, so I thought it was only fitting to look back and see which companies, characters, and storylines defined the year. What did I miss?\u00a0I hope you all have a great holiday season, and I\u2019ll see you in 2026.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-unitedhealth-fallout\">The UnitedHealth fallout<\/h2>\n<p>We entered 2025 with a grim storyline: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson had just been murdered on a Manhattan sidewalk, and many Americans used the event as an opportunity to voice frustration with the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/12\/06\/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-outrage-pain-resentment-reaction-brian-thompson\/\" rel=\"noopener\">inherent unfairness<\/a>\u201d of the health care system. It was this generation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/02\/25\/unitedhealth-facing-security-threats-customer-backlash-starts-pushing-back-on-critics\/\" rel=\"noopener\">version of the discontent<\/a> seen earlier in movies like \u201cJohn Q.\u201d (2002) and \u201cAs Good As It Gets\u201d (1997).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/22\/health-care-inc-newsletter-most-important-stories-2025\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bob Herman<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/22\/health-care-inc-newsletter-most-important-stories-2025\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Your health care industry 2025, wrapped This is the online version of STAT\u2019s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.\u00a0Sign up here. Hello, dear readers. This is the last Health Care Inc. of 2025, so I thought it was only fitting to look back and see which companies, characters, and storylines defined the year. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2157,2208,2178,1428,2210,2211,2288,2212,2213,153,2214,2215,2176,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cms","category-drug-development","category-government-agencies","category-health","category-health-care-inc","category-health-care-inc-newsletter","category-health-insurance","category-hospitals","category-insurance","category-legal","category-medicaid","category-medicare","category-pharma","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}