{"id":108275,"date":"2025-02-12T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/12\/insurer-spending-on-lawyers-rather-than-you-know-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:02:50","slug":"insurer-spending-on-lawyers-rather-than-you-know-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/12\/insurer-spending-on-lawyers-rather-than-you-know-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurer Spending On Lawyers Rather Than, You Know, Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If United Healthcare considered spending more on a cancer patient and less on lawyers to sue doctors for pointing out they didn\u2019t spend on the cancer patient<\/a> they wouldn\u2019t be getting so thoroughly dragged online. While the mockery they\u2019re getting is funny, this underscores the dangerous weaponization of defamation (and also copyright) laws, allowing deep-pocketed antagonists to squelch criticism by filing low merit suits. Also, a Biglaw firm quietly scrubbed its website of a lot of its \u201cdiversity\u201d language<\/a> as the government steps up threats against private companies. And the ABA thinks the Supreme Court needs ethical rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If United Healthcare considered spending more on a cancer patient and less on lawyers to sue doctors for pointing out they didn\u2019t spend on the cancer patient<\/a> they wouldn\u2019t be getting so thoroughly dragged online. While the mockery they\u2019re getting is funny, this underscores the dangerous weaponization of defamation (and also copyright) laws, allowing deep-pocketed antagonists to squelch criticism by filing low merit suits. Also, a Biglaw firm quietly scrubbed its website of a lot of its \u201cdiversity\u201d language<\/a> as the government steps up threats against private companies. And the ABA thinks the Supreme Court needs ethical rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If United Healthcare considered spending more on a cancer patient and less on lawyers to sue doctors for pointing out they didn\u2019t spend on the cancer patient they wouldn\u2019t be getting so thoroughly dragged online. While the mockery they\u2019re getting is funny, this underscores the dangerous weaponization of defamation (and also copyright) laws, allowing deep-pocketed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gavel-stethoscope-GettyImages-592672676-620x414-TjhvTC.jpeg?fit=620%2C414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}