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It's CEO Pay Shock, Not Premium Rate Shock, That We Should Be Outraged About

Wendell Potter | Posted 04.15.2013 | Business
Wendell Potter

If Aetna does, in fact, hike premiums by more than 100 percent for some of its customers, as CEO Mark Bertolini suggested, no doubt part of that money will go to covering his shockingly lucrative paycheck.

Jeffrey Young

Major Health Insurance Company Pushes Brokers To Avoid Obamacare Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.05.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON -- One of the largest health insurance companies in the United States is advising insurance brokers on how to evade new mandates and benefi...

Big Health Insurance Companies Promise Price Increases

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.23.2013 | Business

Big health insurance companies are predicting huge premium increases next year for small employers and people who buy coverage on their own, citing ri...

WATCH: Arianna Interviews CEO On Benefits Of De-Stressing

Huff TV | Posted 05.19.2013 | Business
Huff TV

Guest-hosting CNBC's 'Squawk Box' on Tuesday morning, Arianna interviewed Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini about "his mission - to bring the mindfulness benef...

Health Insurance Companies Warming Up To Obamacare?

Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.13.2013 | Business
Jeffrey Young

The health insurance industry fought President Barack Obama's health care reform law tooth and nail during congressional debate in 2009 and 2010 and c...

'Rate Shock' Will Be at Heart of New Scare Campaign Against Obamacare

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.23.2013 | Politics
Wendell Potter

One of the most ill-advised promises President Obama made during the health care reform debate was this: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." He should have known better.

CEO Threatens Layoffs If There's No Budget Deal

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.15.2012 | Business

The CEO of the country's third-largest health insurer is threatening layoffs if the government doesn't reach a deficit reduction deal in the coming we...

How Insurers Are Cashing in on Medicare While Shunning Small Businesses and the Individual Market

Wendell Potter | Posted 12.29.2012 | Business
Wendell Potter

The big five health insurance companies have begun reporting their third quarter 2012 earnings and, so far, they are pleasing their shareholders with profits that are better than Wall Street expected.

Revealed: The Best Health Care Plans

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 10.08.2012 | Home

The best private health care plans in the United States are run by nonprofit organizations, according to the latest survey published in the November i...

Single-Payer Advocate Targeted By Conservative Group

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.14.2012 | Politics

The conservative American Action Network (AAN) is out with its first ad of the general election, going after Democratic congressional candidate David ...

Jeffrey Young

Health Insurance Companies Join Forces To Seize On Obamacare Opportunities

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 08.20.2012 | Business

Health insurance companies bitterly opposed the health care reform law but, as the merger between Aetna and Coventry Health Care announced Monday show...

Like Health Insurance CEOs, Ryan Wants You to Have More 'Skin in the Game'

Wendell Potter | Posted 10.20.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

If Paul Ryan's proposal to largely privatize Medicare becomes a reality, those not already 55 and older will be putting far more "skin in the game" than current beneficiaries do, and they'll be required to peel off increasing amounts of skin every year for the rest of their lives.

It Took Public Shaming Via Twitter to Get Big Insurer to Cover Grad Student's Cancer Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 10.06.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

Last week, Aetna's CEO got a real-world understanding of how inadequate some of the company's policies are. And thanks to Twitter, the rest of us got a better understanding of how insurers are able to profit so handsomely from the inadequate policies they sell.

Cancer Patient Wins Twitter War For Health Care

Posted 08.02.2012 | Impact

Arijit Guha's battle against Stage 4 colon cancer is far from over but the Arizona State University graduate student can at least savor winning a Twit...

Why GOP Governors Will Embrace ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion -- After the Election

Wendell Potter | Posted 09.15.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

Don't pay any attention to the votes and rhetoric coming out of Washington. Health care reform can turn out to be very profitable indeed for some of the GOP's biggest benefactors -- the giant insurance companies.

How Obama and the Democrats Got Played by the Insurance Industry on the Mandate

Wendell Potter | Posted 08.25.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

The President was led to believe that insurance industry leaders would do their best to get their Republican friends to support reform if he would agree to the mandate and drop the public option. The problem for the President was that industry executives could not deliver any Republican votes.

Don't Be Fooled By the Big Insurance Companies

Ethan Rome | Posted 06.12.2012 | Politics
Ethan Rome

Goodwill gestures aren't enforceable when you're sick. Insurance companies can't be trusted to behave as good actors unless laws are on the books to prevent them from being bad actors.

Want To Stay Healthy? It's Going To Cost You

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.29.2012 | Business

Medication is getting more expensive. And having insurance won't necessarily help you. A number of insurers, including Anthem Blue Cross and Aetna,...

There's a Sleeper in the Reform Law That Could Transform U.S. Health Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.29.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

CO-OPs could be one of the sleepers in the health care reform law that truly transforms how care is financed and delivered in this country. And they could even hasten the day when the big investor-owned corporations cede the marketplace to nonprofits and move on to other ways of earning a profit.

Why Health Insurers Are Counting on the Supreme Court to Uphold ObamaCare

Wendell Potter | Posted 06.09.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

If there is a group of people more anxious about how the Supreme Court will rule on the health care reform law than President Obama and the millions of Americans who are already benefiting from it, it is health insurance executives.

Coming Soon: The End of Health Insurers As We Know Them -- By Self-Inflicted Wounds

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.05.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

Now you know why more than 50 million of us are uninsured. It is not because most of those people are being irresponsible. Most of them either can't afford to buy coverage or can't buy it at any price.

Taking the Initiative in a Struggle Against Excessive Rate Increases

Wendell Potter | Posted 04.21.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

When insurers behave this way, they are demonstrating that they care more about their bottom lines than their policyholders. Which makes it all the more imperative for California voters to sign those petitions and vote for the ballot initiative this fall.

The Battle for Vermont's Health -- And Why It Matters for the Rest of the Country

Wendell Potter | Posted 04.08.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

Despite the ceaseless spin, Vermont lawmakers last May demonstrated they could not be bought nor intimidated when they became the first in the nation to pass a bill that will probably establish a single-payer beachhead in the U.S.

High-Tech Start-Up Focus: Flite's 'Agile Marketing Platform'

Bill_Robinson | Posted 03.31.2012 | Small Business
Bill_Robinson

One of the most crucial elements of any high-tech start-up's survival -- much less evolution -- is the money backing the enterprise. Is it 'smart money?' Is it 'patient money?' Is it 'connected money?'

Mitt Romney's Health Care Fantasy World

Wendell Potter | Posted 03.17.2012 | Politics
Wendell Potter

Obamacare haters try to make us believe that the law will reduce "choice and competition" -- that insurers are competing vigorously to sign up Americans. But the world of health insurance doesn't operate that way -- and it never will without intervention.