Roy Poses exposes that Mary Mundinger, a leading advocate of primary care nursing doctorates, is also a board member of UnitedHealth:

In particular, she is on the board of directors of UnitedHealth Group . . . for that loyalty, by 2007 she had received (per the company’s 2007 proxy) rights to acquire 345,930 shares of UnitedHealth, and in 2006 was paid $73,750 in cash and stock options valued at $412,575. That level of compensation might inspire some loyalty.

Presumably, it is in the interest of UnitedHealth to hold down what it pays for primary care . . . Dr Mundinger’s advocacy for primary care furnished by “doctor nurses,” who would be less well trained and paid than primary care doctors, might serve UnitedHealth Group’s interests.