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Top Insurance Lobbyist: Dem "Vilification" Could Kill Reform

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Health Insurance Plans, Karen Ignagni, Ignagni Villification, Ignagni Interview, Ahip, Transparency, Politics News

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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"Facts" About American Health Care Revisited

John Geyman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, National Center for Policy Analysis, Uninsured, Ncpa, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, PhRMA Lobby, Single Payer System, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Ahip, Medical-Loss Ratio, Pnhp, Politics News
John Geyman

A recent post at the National Center for Policy Analysis expounded on 10 "surprising facts" about our health care system. The piece cherry picks literature to make a political point.

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Durbin Responds To Right-Wing Harassment Strategy: We "Won't Fall For A Sucker-Punch Like This"

Think Progress | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freedom Works, Dick Durbin, Durbin, Town Hall, Americans for Prosperity, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Gop, Democrats, Health Care, Jonathan Cohn, Politics News

ThinkProgress reported today on the growing number of angry right-wing activists viciously harassing Democratic, as well as moderate Republican, membe...

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Right Wing Groups Harassing Dems At Town Halls

Think Progress | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Freedomworks, Tea Party, Democrats Harrassment, Americans for Prosperity, Lobbyists, Frank Kratovil, Ahip, Town Halls, Democrats, Tim Bishop, Republicans, Politics News

Today, House members are back home to begin their month-long recess. The far right has indicated that they plan to welcome many of their representativ...

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Subsidizing Our Way To Affordable Health Insurance: A Futile And Unaffordable Quest

John Geyman | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Expansion of Medicaid, Uninsured, Senate Finance Committee, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, PhRMA Lobby, Single Payer System, Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Ahip, H. R. 3200, Medical-Loss Ratio, Pnhp, Politics News
John Geyman

What is likely to emerge from Congress on health care reform this year, if anything, will not be real reform and will only add to our problems.

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The Public Option: Dead By Pen Strokes In Congressional Committees

John Geyman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Jacob Hacker, H. R. 676, Uninsured, PhRMA Lobby, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Single Payer System, Ahip, Massachusetts Miracle, Pnhp, Living News
John Geyman

The initial idea of a public option was premised on the thought that a public plan could bring needed competition into the financing of health care. Forget that dream.

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Individual Mandates: Expensive Policy Failure And Bonanza For Insurers And Market Stakeholders

John Geyman | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Uninsured, PhRMA Lobby, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Single Payer System, Ahip, Massachusetts Miracle, Politics News
John Geyman

Mandates have not resulted in universal coverage in any state. They are complex, very expensive, not sustainable, and have unforeseen unintended consequences.

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Health Insurance Lobby Cherry-Picks Data In Fight Against Public Plan

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Ahip, Health Care Reform Obama, Harry and Louise Ads, Health Insurance Lobby, Health Care Lobby, Transparency, Politics News

The industry that helped scuttle health reform 15 years ago with its "Harry and Louise" ads is back, voicing support for a central element of the Obam...

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Health Care Reform 2009: A Train Wreck In Slow Motion

John Geyman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Education, PhRMA Lobby, Senate Committee on Health, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Single Payer System, Ahip, Living News
John Geyman

The debate over health care reform is entering a late stage with increasingly bitter partisan differences over very divisive issues.

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Corpocracy vs. Democracy in Health Care Reform

John Geyman | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Long-Term Effects of Conservative Economic Policy, Corpocracy, Democracy in Health Care Reform, PhRMA Lobby, (NHI), Single Payer System, Health Care Reform, Ahip, Media Domination of Health Care News, National Health Insurance, Bill Moyers, Living News
John Geyman

Since corporate dollars trump individual votes, we have a corpocracy, not a democracy.

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Sahil Kapur

Health Insurance Lobby Supports "Bipartisan Reforms," Attacks Public Option (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Lobby, Public Health Insurance Option, Health Care, Health, Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies, Ahip, Transparency, Politics News

The lobbying group America's Health Insurance Plans, has launched a seven-figure advertising campaign claiming to support "bipartisan reforms" for hea...

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Societal Blind Spots As Barriers To Health Care Reform

John Geyman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: PhRMA Lobby, John Geyman M.D., The Cancer Generation, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, Market-Based Health Care System, Blue Cross Blue Shield, America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Joseph Stiglitz, Conyers Bill (H.R. 676), Health Care Reform, Single Payer System, . The Medicare Prescription Drug, Huffington Post, Ahip, Ph.D., Barriers to Health Care Reform, Living News
John Geyman

Our market-based system breeds costs, not restraint. And none of the various multi-payer proposals being considered in Congress have effective methods to contain health care costs.

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Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dr. David Himmelstein, Turning Language on Its Head, Karen Ignani, Public Option, Government Bureaucracy, Bizarro World, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care Reform, For-Profit Insurances, Government Takeover, Single Payer Health Care, Ahip, Frank Luntz, Spinning the Issue, Physicians for a National Health Program, Savings With National Health Care, Medical Malpractice, Best Medical Practices, Keeping the Insurance You Have, Transparency, Creeping Socialism, Cbo Report, Politics News
Michele Swenson

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

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The Sham and Shame of the Health Reform "Debate": The Charade Goes On

John Geyman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, PhRMA Lobby, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Single Payer System, Health Care Reform, Ahip, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Politics News
John Geyman

While everyone agrees that the soaring costs of health care should be the principal target of reform, the rhetoric and behavior of the stakeholders do not match.

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That Didn't Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise To President Obama

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Health Care for America Now, Health Care, President Obama, Ahip, Politics News
Jason Rosenbaum

Just four days after standing next to Obama and declaring their commitment to control health care costs, the insurance industry, device makers, and hospital groups are backing off their promise.

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Paul Krugman: Health Care Proposal "Some Of The Best Policy News I've Heard In A Long Time"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry and Louise, Americans Health Insurance Plans, Paul Krugman Health Care, Paul Krugman Ahip, Ahip, Paul Krugman, Obama Health Care, Politics News

On Sunday, the Obama administration announced it was working with trade associations, pharmaceutical groups and other stakeholders in the health care ...

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Ryan Grim

Astroturf Lobby Charged With Tricking Old Folks Into Writing Letters To Local Editors

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare Advantage, Ahip, Medicare, Health Care Industry, Politics News

Medicare Advantage plans -- publicly funded but privately administered Medicare plans -- are regularly accused of tricking the elderly into giving up ...

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Stunning: Health Industry Front Group Astroturfing The Elderly

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Astroturf, Health Care, Ahip, Medicare, Politics News
Jason Rosenbaum

Does the insurance industry endorse using unsuspecting Americans in a fake grassroots campaign?

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No Recovery in Sight -- Unless We Pass Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, Public Plan for Health Insurance, National Health Reform, President Obama, Ahip, Massachusetts Health Reform, UC Berkeley, BlueCross BlueShield Association, Individual Mandate, California Health Care Reform, Recession, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

A new study came out today that claims that half a million people in California have lost their health insurance coverage during the recession.

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Dems & Repubs on Health Care: 'Love a Lobbyist'

Michele Swenson | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bobby Jindal, Roy Blunt, Health Insurance Industry, Henry Waxman, Medicare Modernization Act, Newt Gingrich, Pharma, Socialized Medicine, Social Insurance, Billy Tauzin, Tom Delay, Max Baucus, Zach Wamp, Ahip, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Kleptocracy, National Healthcare, Health, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Politics News
Michele Swenson

The same insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies have granted themselves billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies and inflated profits continue to shape the healthcare reform debate today.

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Ryan Grim

Medicare Advantage Sellers Trick Elderly Into Giving Up Benefits

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare Advantage, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Ahip, Medicare Advantage Plans, Politics News

Curtis Smith is retired, but his body doesn't know it yet. The 72-year-old's eyes still pop open at five a.m. every morning, just as they did for deca...

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Arthur Delaney

MoveOn TV Ad Targets Health Insurance Industry (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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A new ad by the folks at MoveOn.org targets the health insurance industry. Timed to coincide with the annual conference of America's Health Insurance ...

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Arthur Delaney

Eric Massa Protests Outside Health Care Conference (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Massa, Health Insurance, Ahip, Politics News

Congressman Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) led a protest Monday outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, site of the 2009 national conference of America's H...

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The Honeymoon's Over: Health Insurance Companies Waste No Time Saying No to Obama's Plan

Richard Kirsch | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Ahip, Health Care, President Obama, Obama 100 Days, Obama, Politics News
Richard Kirsch

Make no mistake: the private health insurance industry hasn't changed one bit. It's got slicker rhetoric and new friends but the same old game.

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Insurance Industry Releases Their Plan -- Will the Media Question It?

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Media, Health Care, Ahip, Politics News
Jason Rosenbaum

We have 10 questions we're hoping members of the media will ask America's Health Insurance Plans, the insurance industry front group, tomorrow morning when AHIP presents their new plan.

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