UnitedHealth Group resists shareholder proposal on delayed and denied care

Proposal calls on company to prepare reports on macroeconomic costs' of health insurer's practices

UnitedHealth Group is attempting to swat down a non-binding shareholder proposal that asked the company to prepare reports on the costs of delayed and denied healthcare.

The proposal, filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), represents a new frontier in seeking to hold insurance companies accountable for the macroeconomic costs" of denied care - arguing they eventually hurt the bottom line of large investors.