I’m a little surprised this investigative story by STAT News, owned by the Boston Globe Media Group, isn’t getting more play, i.e. how insurance giant UnitedHealth’s “unrivaled leverage over physicians” is used to generate revenue for both its insurance arm and clinicians – “similar to how Standard Oil amassed power as both the buyer and seller in oil refining.” … Squeezed in the middle? Patients, of course. … Maybe this is one of those stories that has to sink in for a while before the rest of the media starts referring to it in future pieces about UnitedHealth. … Here is STAT’s own link to the story (sub req.)