LEVER WEEKLY: Nurses And Other Superheroes

What The Lever Published This Week: 

Buy Now, Suffer Later

The promises of Klarna and other “buy now, pay later” companies are too good to be true.

The Lever •Amos Barshad

The Deadly Consequences Of UnitedHealth’s Unchecked Growth

Failure to block the insurance giant’s market consolidation, including by a judge with a potential conflict of interest…

The Lever •Lois Parshley

The Dangerous Lie Behind On-Demand Nursing

“Uber for nurses” is extracting profits and hurting health care, all to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.…

The Lever •Helen Santoro

Health Insurers Gave $120 Billion To Shareholders While Denying Your Claim

The country’s largest insurers spent $120 billion on stock buybacks since 2010, with nearly half of that spent by Unite…

The Lever •Veronica Riccobene

How Marvel Helped Sell Us Forever Wars

Can a comic book icon of military power be used to challenge war propaganda?

The Lever •Arjun Singh

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Banning The Bans

Censorship gets banned, youth score a climate win, nurses win a major union vote, workers’ rights are clear and unmista…

The Lever •Sam Pollak

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The Lever In The News:

• The Philadelphia Inquirer — Columnist Will Bunch spotlighted Master Plan in an exploration of how the wealthy have taken over our political system.
• MSNBC — A segment on public outrage over the health care system featured our reporting on health insurers’ massive profits and stock buybacks.
• Breaking Points — The show discussed our reporting on cryptocurrency’s potential to tank the rest of the economy.

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