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CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:44 AM Mar 2020

Google invests $375 million in Oscar Health - Kushner company

Google's "Don't Be E V I L" has morphed into just "E V I L"

The investment by Google's parent company, announced Tuesday, follows its participation in a $165 million infusion earlier this year. That round included investments from Verily Life Sciences, a division of Alphabet focused on using technology to prevent, detect and manage disease. Google also has invested in the company through its Capital G venture capital fund.

Oscar also announced Tuesday that Salar Kamangar, a longtime Google executive and former CEO of YouTube, will join its board.

The health insurer was co-founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, whose brother, Jared Kushner, is President Trump's son-in-law.


https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/14/technology/google-oscar-health-insurance/index.html

Not verified but seems to tie in if true:



Bloomberg had a story on 3/6/2020 regarding Jared, Ivanka, & Josh Kushner's Valuation ploy to make millions by investing in a COVID-19 test through his operation called "Cadre” & his brother’s company- “Oscar Health” & its new flu testing subsidiary.
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Me.

(35,454 posts)
3. The Same Oscar Health That Has Been Losing Millions Every Year?
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:49 AM
Mar 2020

it's unreal. The Saudis give him money, Israelis recently gave him 30 million and now this.

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
4. Dumb investment
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:53 AM
Mar 2020

unless it comes packed with political favors.

Or is it just high class money laundering?

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
5. If true then bye bye Google. Oh wait....
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:54 AM
Mar 2020

I don’t use google directly anyway. I guess I can't bring the company to its knees then.

CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
9. Duck Duck Go - great search engine.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:19 AM
Mar 2020

And take advantage of Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials too.

Fuck Google.

klook

(12,157 posts)
11. Been using DuckDuckGo for years - excellent search engine.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 12:21 PM
Mar 2020

And I avoid ALL Google products like the plague, which is kind of a drag because I used to like Waze, and Google Maps, and I had a Gmail account -- back in the day before I knew they were evil. No more.

CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
12. How The Kushner Family Is Cashing In On COVID-19 or grifters of a feather flock together
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:18 PM
Mar 2020
https://www.dcreport.org/2020/03/16/how-the-kushner-family-is-cashing-in-on-covid-19/

The Kushner family is trying to cash in on the pandemic that could kill millions of us.

Oscar Health, the health insurance company co-founded by Jared Kushner’s younger brother, announced Friday it has launched a testing center locator for COVID-19. It shows where more than 100 centers are in the United States. The company is also offering a risk assessment survey and means to talk to a doctor online.

. . .

Team Trump announced Saturday that Trump tested negative for the virus despite presiding over a coronavirus hot zone at Mar-a-Lago. Testing efforts have been marked by delays and dysfunction. Just a few thousand people were tested during the weeks the virus spread across our country.

Trump reportedly tried to woo a German company working on a cure for the coronavirus to move here and make a vaccine only for us.

. . .

Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, has become increasingly involved in Team Trump’s response to the pandemic. He helped write Trump’s half-baked Oval Office speech on the disease. The Kushner brothers co-founded Cadre, a real-estate investing start-up.

Oscar Health was criticized in 2018 for selling health insurance in Ohio through the Affordable Care Act with a deductible of $15,800. The company sold health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in 15 states for 2020.

Captain Zero

(6,811 posts)
13. definition of cadre, plus snips about the Kushner's Cadre Firm. My hunches.
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:53 AM
Mar 2020

A cadre is a small group of people who have been specially chosen, trained, and organized for a particular purpose.

The Kushner brothers co-founded Cadre, a real-estate investing start-up.
Bloomberg had a story on 3/6/2020 regarding Jared, Ivanka, & Josh Kushner's Valuation ploy to make millions by investing in a COVID-19 test through his operation called "Cadre” & his brother’s company- “Oscar Health” & its new flu testing subsidiary.

But Cadre is in real estate? So will Cadre lease the testing sites??
See where this might go? US Treasury money to be siphoned off into leases from Cadre.
Only Oscar's German solution to be utilized at those test sites.
More US Treasury money for the tests
Use government power and Google to direct millions of people to those test sites.
Trump family control of the test sites, the test kits, and the completed TESTING RESULTS. check.
Dutifully reported by Google whom everybody trusts.

Follow the money. Speculate on the perfidy.



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