Insurance Industry Antitrust Fight Headed To Conference Committee
The insurance industry successfully fought off a Senate threat to revoke its antitrust exemption as part of health care reform, but the issue lives to...
The insurance industry successfully fought off a Senate threat to revoke its antitrust exemption as part of health care reform, but the issue lives to...
The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
House Republicans introduced their outlines for health care reform this past week to much anticipation. The minority leadership had pledged to produce...
The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Republican pollster Bill McInturff was the keynote speaker on the final day of the America's Health Insurance Plans's state issues conference on Frida...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
For months now, the lobbyists for America's Health Insurance Plans have been publicly expressing support for the Democratic health-care reform bill --...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The public option epitaph was written months ago during the more than two dozen secret meetings that Obama and his aides had with the insurance industry and pharmaceutical bigwigs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
UPDATED BELOW A top lobbyist for the major private insurance industry trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), urged Congressional Repub...
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Whoever picked the name "Humana" for the health insurance giant had a great sense of humor. Had the marketing genius in charge of picking a name for the corporation been more honest, he would have called it "Profita."
Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The insurers have demonstrated that there is no reason any more to cultivate their support. That being the case, Congress has a new chance to do the job right.
Bismarck Tribune | Tiffany Patterson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Sixteen months ago, I gave birth to a wonderful baby boy, Trypp. After a week, Trypp began sleeping longer than usual and refused to eat. I took my so...
New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
In the past, the insurance industry's power has been a major barrier to health-care reform. Most notably, the industry paid for the infamous "Harry an...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media
A day after Media Matters revealed that Alex Castellanos' consulting firm is connected to the recent anti-health care reform advertising blitz from America's Health Insurance Plans, CNN has announced that they will disclose Castellanos' ties to the health care industry in future appearances.
Media Matters | Matt Gertz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
Media Matters for America has obtained evidence that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos' political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for ...
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
If there was any lingering doubt about the ethical bankruptcy of the health care cartel, we now have incontrovertible evidence in the form of a new report commissioned by the health insurance lobby.
Washington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
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...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
The insurers hustled, conned and lied to Obama. They cynically played upon his political naiveté about them. Worse, they didn't even try to mask their play of him.
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
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.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
I have little sympathy for Baucus at this point, when he complains that his adversaries have had time to put out a report attacking his bill. Because there is one reason that they've had all that time.
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
(AP) WASHINGTON — Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for p...
Tim Dickinson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
There's a big scary new study out today from the health insurance lobby purporting to show that the Senate Finance Committee's reform bill would cause future health insurance premiums to spiral out of control.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
One of the most high-profile progressives in the House of Representatives argued on Monday that a new insurance lobby report disparaging the Senate's ...
Barbara B. Kennelly | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
It's time we call this decades-long dance with the insurance industry and Medicare what it is-- political extortion--not benefit cuts.
Robert Creamer | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
The battle is on. Remind your Members of Congress that none of them took an oath to protect the profits of private insurance companies.
Free Speech Radio News | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
This year's debate is different from the efforts in the 1990s to reform health care. This time, the health insurance industry says they support health...
Michele Swenson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
The insurance industry has shifted to selling so-called "consumer-driven" plans with very high deductibles that shift a great deal of health care cost from employers and insurers to individuals.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics