Insurance Rate Hikes

Will Patients Beat Blue Shield Again... This Time With the First Online Ballot Petition for Rate Regulation?

Jamie Court | Posted 04.09.2012

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Shouldn't the CEOs of health insurance companies like Blue Shield have to sign under penalty of perjury that their rate hikes are justified? Californians will vote on that proposition in November, and are almost sure to approve.

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Time for Obama to Get Tough on Insurers With Rate Freeze Via Executive Order

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's mad about insurers blaming his health care plan for big rate hikes, but he doesn't have to take it anymore. He can and should issue an executive order to stop the rate hikes immediately.

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Weekly Pulse: Insurance, Dispersants, and Teen Botox

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Is the IV Bag half-empty or half-full? Theda Skocpol, the author of a forthcoming book on President Ba...

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Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi Tossed From AHIP Conference, Returns As Batman (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, our own Sam Stein reported that a crew from "The Daily Show" was out at the Ritz Carlton hotel, interviewing attendees of last week's AHIP ...

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Kathleen Sebelius Went Soft On Insurers, Not That Anyone Noticed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathleen Sebelius's meeting with health insurance executives was pre-sold as something of an epic clash, with the HHS Secretary striding into the lion's den to battle the largest interest group arrayed against health care reform and to offer them some stark choices. Funny thing, though! The battle didn't exactly play out as expected. Sebelius deviated dramatically from the prepared remarks blasted around to reporters -- and at one key moment, rather than firing shots, Sebelius buckled.

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Kathleen Sebelius Pushes Health Care Reform In Front Of Insurance Companies (SPEECH EXCERPTS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Speaking before a crowd of insurance industry officials on Wednesday, President Obama's chief health care aide Kathleen Sebelius argued that they shou...

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Jerry Brown Subpoenas Documents From Health Insurers

AP | ROBIN HINDERY | Posted 05.25.2011

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Attorney General Jerry Brown subpoenaed financial records from the state's seven largest health insurance compan...

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Waxman: Anthem Blue Cross Spent $27M On 103 Executive Retreats

AP | ALAN FRAM and ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The House has voted to repeal the health insurance industry's exemption from federal antitrust laws, giving Democrats an easy win o...

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Public Option Activists Not Giving Up The Fight, Targeting Seven Dem Senators

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Though the White House and Democratic leadership in the House have pronounced the death of the public option, advocates for the provision are not givi...

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Anthem -- Shifting Costs to Individual Policyholders

Hava Volterra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today's Wall Street Journal editorial about Anthem's individual health insurance rate increases in California reveals that Anthem is shifting costs from its group insurance plans to its individual insurance holders.

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