This Pluralistic post seems very rant-y, but it links to a Bloomberg piece that seems like a better source for backing up the claim: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-obamacare-open-enrol...

As someone with a little experience with the 'advertiser side' of Google, they also push junk to their paying clients, using every opportunity to sell terrible, worthless placements to advertisers. Which is to say that the problem is not that 'searchers' are the product, the problem is that Google is not focused on creating value for its counter-parties.

PSA for folks in Northern California:

The Sutter Health Network / Palo Alto Medical Foundation routinely get caught committing widespread insurance fraud.

They also offer products that seem to be junk insurance to me, but I’m not a lawyer.

Here are three examples of their alleged widespread insurance fraud:

https://allaboutlawyer.com/claim-your-sutter-health-settleme...

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sutter-health-accused...

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/government-intervene...

Some of those suites involve other big providers, like KP. Not sure if any of the healthcare providers around here are reputable at this point.