Lewin Group

Ending Health Care Pinball

Robert E. Litan | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Decision Aids, Health Care Costs, Lewin Group, Politics News

If even a fraction of America's 300 million patients turned into entrepreneurial patients -- making informed decisions, sharing in productivity gains, and taking ownership of their care -- the health care system would experience a tsunami of cost savings and quality care would skyrocket.

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My Blue Shield Experience Embodies Our Stupid and Wasteful Health Insurance System

Wendy Block | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cobra, Blue Shield, California, Health Insurance Bureaucracy, Health Care Reform, Waste, Single Payer, Saving Money, Lewin Group, Politics News

Recognize this melody? If you're a Blue Shield of California member, you hear it pretty much every time you call and end up holding till an actual person answers. A few days ago I heard it for half an hour.

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We Are Much More Than a Fiscal Watchdog

Tim Roeper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jason Linkins, Barack Obama, Polling, George W. Bush, Social Security, Lewin Group, Dartmouth Atlas Project, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Peter G. Peterson, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, Health Care, Fiscal Responsibility, Media News

Jason Linkins got some things wrong about the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and we feel compelled to clear the air.

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Lewin Group Rears Its Head On Eve Of Health Care Reform Address

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lewin Group, Media Criticism, Lobbyists, Transparency, Eat the Press, Politics News

McClatchy is reporting today on a new study by the Lewin Group, a health care research organization that purports to be independent but is actually a subsidiary of health insurance giant UnitedHealth.

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Tom Daschle: The Man Behind Insurance Cooperatives

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unitedhealth, Insurance-Coops, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Insurance Cooperatives, Tom Daschle, Kent Conrad, Lewin Group, Health Care, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Tom Daschle, has been busy performing his dual roles as health care adviser to the White House and "highly paid policy adviser to hospital, drug, pharmaceutical and other health care industry clients."

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Lewin Group's Parent Company Donated Big To GOP Leaders

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lewin Group, Eric Cantor, The Lewin Group, Boehner Cantors, John Boehner, Transparency, Video, Politics News

House Republican Leaders John Boehner (Ohio) and Eric Cantor (Va.) have taken roughly $60,000 from the health insurance company that owns the research...

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CBO Gives Boost To Obama Health Plan

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf, Cbo, Obama Health Care Plan, Steny H. Hoyer, President Obama, Obama, Lewin Group, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives pounced on a congressional budget analysis to bolster their plan for a government-run health insurance ...

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The Least-Trusted Flack on CNN

Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lewin Group, Jim Demint, Wolf Blitzer, Msnbc, Cnn, Media News

Wolf Blitzer, the chief flack at Lou Dobbs' birther network, makes CNN one of the pitiful places Republicans can still lie confidently about the Lewin Group.

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Health Care vs. White House Beer? Are You Kidding Me?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Beer, Health Care Reform, Harvard University, Barack Obama, Cambridge Police, UnitedHealth Group, Lewin Group, Politics News

Is this former lifelong Republican, now an avid Obama supporter, the only American with a sense of fury directed against the divided Democrats when it comes to reforming health care?

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Morning Joe Allows Guests To Pimp Lewin Group 'Research'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Video, Public Health Insurance Option, Morning Joe, Health, Health Care Reform, Republicans, Insurance Companies, Gop, Lewin Group, Eat the Press, Media News

Two day ago, the Washington Post wrote up an article documenting the often unstated connections between the Lewin Group -- whose health care talking p...

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"Nonpartisan" Front For Insurers Has Been Widely Cited

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Conservative Media, Public Health Insurance Option, Health Care Reform, Health, Republicans, Insurance Companies, Conservatives, Lewin Group, Politics News

The Lewin Group, exposed by the Washington Post as a subsidiary of an insurance company, has been widely cited as an objective, nonpartisan source of ...

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GOP Leans On "Independent" Research From Firm Owned By Health Insurance Company

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, Republicans Health Care, Lewin Group, Health Care Bill 2009, The Lewin Group, Health Care Numbers, Gop Health Care Numbers, Transparency, Politics News

The political battle over health-care reform is waged largely with numbers, and few number-crunchers have shaped the debate as much as the Lewin Group...

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Crazy Wingnut Healthcare Attacks Exposed

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Schultz, Alex Castellanos, Msnbc, Michele Bachmann, Public Option, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Health Insurance, Tom Arnold, Lewin Group, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Predictably, as healthcare reform grows larger in the window, the claims from the far-right are becoming increasingly bizarre and ridiculous, topping, in some cases, the psychotic claims of, say, the Obama birthers.

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