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Ryan Grim

Insurance Industry Antitrust Fight Headed To Conference Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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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...

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GOP Reform Proposal Borrows Heavily From AHIP's Approach

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans introduced their outlines for health care reform this past week to much anticipation. The minority leadership had pledged to produce...

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AHIP Reacts Unhappily To Reid Remarks

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

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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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Sam Stein

AHIP Pollster Interrupted By Singing Troupe Of Protesters

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Arthur Delaney

AHIP: Health Care Reform's Ultimate Frenemy

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

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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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The Public Option is Dead as a Doornail

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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.

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Sam Stein

AHIP Lobbyist To GOP: Don't Give "Comfort To The Enemy" On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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UPDATED BELOW A top lobbyist for the major private insurance industry trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), urged Congressional Repub...

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Humana: Profits Over People

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Peter Dreier

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."

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By Revealing Their True Colors, Insurers Eliminate Any Reason to Compromise With Them

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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Stephen M. Davidson

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.

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Baby's Insurance Company Denies Coverage, Family Left In Health Crisis With Over $100,000 In Medical Bills

Bismarck Tribune | Tiffany Patterson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

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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...

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Krugman: Insurance Industry's Hatchet Job, So Bad That It Might Be Good

New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Jason Linkins

CNN To Disclose Castellanos's Health Care Industry Ties

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

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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.

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CNN's Castellanos' Firm Is Ad Buyer For AHIP's Anti-Health Care Ad Blitz

Media Matters | Matt Gertz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

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Media Matters for America has obtained evidence that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos' political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for ...

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Punishing the Health Insurance Cartel for Extortion and Fraud

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

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Bob Cesca

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.

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Insurance Companies Emerge As Obama's Reform Foe

Washington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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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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Insurers Royally Played Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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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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Max Baucus Has Only Himself To Blame

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

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.

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White House Office Of Health Reform Director "Blindsided" By AHIP Study

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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(AP) WASHINGTON — Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for p...

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Price Waterhouse and Big Tobacco

Tim Dickinson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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Tim Dickinson

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.

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Sam Stein

Weiner: AHIP Report Makes Strongest Case In Weeks For Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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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 ...

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Cutting Subsidies to Insurers Are Not Benefit Cuts

Barbara B. Kennelly | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

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Barbara B. Kennelly

It's time we call this decades-long dance with the insurance industry and Medicare what it is-- political extortion--not benefit cuts.

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The Health Care Question Should Be About the Insurance Industry Stranglehold, Not a "Government Takeover"

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Robert Creamer

The battle is on. Remind your Members of Congress that none of them took an oath to protect the profits of private insurance companies.

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Health Insurer Enlisting Its Employees To Kill Reform

Free Speech Radio News | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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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...

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The Tyranny of Wall St.-Run Health Care: No CEO Left Behind

Michele Swenson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

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Michele Swenson

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.

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