Karen Ignagni

The Insurance Industry's Scheme to Circumvent Reform and Make You Pay More Than Ever for Health Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 08.28.2011

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Wendell Potter

If the health insurance industry gets its way, not only will it be able to gut important provisions of the health care reform law, it will put all of us in a forced march into inadequate plans, and, at the same time, into the swelling ranks of the underinsured.

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Insurers to Obama: Transparency Is Essential -- For Everybody But Us

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Uninsured, Obamacare, Kathleen Sebelius, Tennessee, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Karen Ignagni, Health Care, Medical-Loss Ratio, Mlr, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Politics News
Wendell Potter

The reaction of health insurers to the Obama administration's requirement that they start justifying rate increases of 10 percent or more was quick and predictable: "Not fair!"

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Insurers Lobbying on the Fine Print May Erase Consumer Protections

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wendell Potter

The lobbying to change the medical-loss ratio provision in the new health care law is just one example of how special interests are working to gut the reform law while preserving the portions they like.

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The Coming Battle of the Ritz Carlton

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Health Insurance Industry, Hcan, Angela Braly, Cigna, Obama Health Care Plan, Ed Hanway, Nataline Sarkisian, Viet Nam War, Wellpoint, Health Care Reform, Anthem Blue Cross, Karen Ignagni, Ahip, America's Health Insurance Plans, Ritz Carlton, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Insurance executives are not here to negotiate or to shape legislation. They are here to stop health care reform dead in its tracks. They will not be "convinced" to allow health care reform to pass the Congress.

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Insurance Companies Emerge As Obama's Reform Foe

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Americas Health Insurance Plans, Ahip, Obama Health Care Overhaul, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Karen Ignagni, Healthcare, President Obama Health Care Overhaul, Politics News

Now they have an enemy. For months, President Obama and his administration waged their fight for a health-care overhaul without a clear opponent, eve...

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AHIP Reacts Unhappily To Reid Remarks

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lobbyblog, Karen Ignagni, Ahip, AHIP Reid, Business News

Soon after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced today that health care reform legislation taking shape in the Senate would include a p...

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Dreier

After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.

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Arthur Delaney

AHIP: Health Care Reform's Ultimate Frenemy

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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For months now, the lobbyists for America's Health Insurance Plans have been publicly expressing support for the Democratic health-care reform bill --...

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AHIP and Insurance Companies Funding Chamber of Commerce Attack Ads

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insurance Companies, Chamber of Commerce, Ahip, Health Reform, Health Care, Harry and Louise, National Journal, Karen Ignagni, Politics News
Jason Rosenbaum

The insurance companies not only lied about their support for reform (as we've known all along), but lacked the courage of their convictions to put their money into their opposition publicly.

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Health Insurance Companies Want Severe Penalites For People Who Do Not Buy Coverage

The Associated Press | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP)-- The health insurance industry doesn't want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Amer...

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Karen Ignagni Won't Talk About Her Health Care Coverage

Mother Jones | —David Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Insurance Companies, Ignagni Health Insurance, Health Insurance Lobbyist, Ignagni, Health Insurance Lobbyists, Karen Ignagni, Health Insurance Lobbying, Politics News

What kind of health care coverage does the nation's top health insurance lobbyist have? Her trade group refuses to say. Karen Ignagni is the health...

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When It Comes to Healthcare, Be Selfish

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Health Care Reform, Oscar Wilde, Karen Ignagni, Obama Health Care, Enlightened Self-Interest, Public Health Insurance Plan, Healthcare System, Universal Healthcare, Healthcare Debate, Pharmaceutical Industry, Talking Heads, Private Health Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Politics News
Gerald Sindell

When I see talking heads, "experts," and politicians talking about healthcare, I want them to answer the people's, and only the people's questions.

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Karen Ignagni, AHIP President: "Villiification" Of Insurance Companies Will Kill Reform

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — August will be a make-or-break month for the drive to revamp health care, as members of Congress use the recess to either sell the ...

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Health Insurers Aren't the Victims, But the Victimizers

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurers, Karen Ignagni, Obama, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Politics News
Jamie Court

Health insurers have demonized themselves through tactics that would get mobsters drummed out of the mafia.

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The Incredible Shrinking Health Care Reform

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman Solomon

Notions of universal health care are fading in the power centers of politics -- while more and more attention focuses on the care and feeding of the insurance industry.

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