U.S. Representative Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC), who continues to practice medicine as a urologist, encouraged Americans this week to drop UnitedHealth as an insurance provider and employer.
[NOTE: UnitedHealth, the largest health insurer in the United States covering nearly 50 million people, has faced numerous investigations including a federal probe into its Medicare billing practices.]
Murphy wrote on social media: “@UHC just had its biggest quarterly earnings EVER. They do this by denying care and not paying those who deliver care. They put profits above patients. I urge every patient or employer to drop them immediately. Enough is enough.”
On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group reported First Quarter 2026 Revenues of $111.7 Billion, up 2 percent from Q1 2025 ($109.6 billion).
UnitedHealth @UHC just had its biggest quarterly earnings EVER. They do this by denying care and not paying those who deliver care. They put profits above patients. I urge every patient or employer to drop them immediately. Enough is enough.
— Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (@RepGregMurphy) April 23, 2026
Marcus Lemonis, the new CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond, former Camping World CEO, and star of the business reality show The Profit, replied to Murphy: “I hope they don’t sue you.”
At the Axios Health Summit this week, Rep. Murphy was asked, as a doctor, what barriers he sees for his patients seeking the medical care that they need.
As seen below, Murphy told a story about a patient who recently changed insurance companies “and all of a sudden the drug he’d been on for several years, instead of being $50 a month was $1500.”
Murphy said he looked up the drug on the CostPlus website where he found it for $15 a month. (Cost Plus Drugs is owned by billionaire Mark Cuban.)
.@RepGregMurphy describes the impact of middlemen and vertical integration on health care access at an #AxiosLive event this morning. pic.twitter.com/v8UDhGz0d0
— Axios (@axios) April 22, 2026