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Widow Stuck With Bill After Insurer Approved Husband's Treatment

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: World Insurance, Avastin, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Robert Stecker, Workers-Compensation, Medical-Debt, Fanny Gonzalez, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, John Goucher, Kenny White, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Business News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Fanny Gonzalez's husband ...

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Insurance Runs Out For 12-Year-Old Boy Without Arm

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosthetic Limbs, Benjamin French, For Profit Health Care, Prosthetic Arms, Health Insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Insurance Coverage, Lifetime Maximum Benefit, Unemployment, Uninsured, Health Care Reform, Ben French, Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan, Prosthesis, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care, Politics News

Benjamin French was born with his right arm missing below the elbow. In his 12 years, he has been fitted with seven prostheses. His most recent replac...

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Health Insurance Companies Price Gouging the US Economy

Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Family, Price Gouging, Americans, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Policy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Crisis, Economy, Politics News

At the current pace, on my 54th birthday I can look forward to spending over $1 million a year on healthcare (but my bank will be broken many years earlier).

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Time for Liberals to Give Up on the Public Option

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wyden-Bennett Healthy Americans Act, Public Option, Joseph Lieberman, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Olympia Snowe, Politics News

The dream of a national health insurance system that guarantees that matters of life or death are not a function of wealth can finally come true, but only if the public option is put aside for now.

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Health Insurance Companies Want Severe Penalties For People Who Do Not Buy Coverage

The Associated Press | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lobbying, Lobbyists, Senate Finance Committee, Health CareHealth Care, Low-Income, Alissa Fox, Peter Orszag, Pre-Existing Conditions, Middle Class, Insurance Companies, Mandatory Insurance, Debbie Stabenow, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Insurance Companies, Schumer, Penalties, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Karen Ignagni, Individual Mandate, Chuck Schumer, America's Health Insurance Plans, Stabenow, Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The health insurance industry doesn't want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Amer...

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DEATH-PAC Takes on Blue Cross in Chicago (VIDEO)

Aemilia Scott | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Moveon, Teabaggers, Protest, Obama, Death-Pac, Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Care Reform, Satire, Chicago News

My satirical DEATH-PAC successfully defended Blue Cross / Blue Shield -- that tiny, innocent little ma and pa shop -- from the demonic populist horde whose name is MoveOn.org.

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Mad Max Baucus (D-BC/BS) and his Gang of Styx

Don Parker | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Styx River, Jeff Bingaman, Charles Grassley, Fargo North Dakota, Olympia Snowe, Albuquerque New Mexico, Billings Montana, Mike Enzi, Mad Max, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Gang of Styx, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Health Care, Gang of Six, Politics News

The Gang of Styx represent 8.4 million Americans, but they have been given more dollars from the health care industry than they have constituents.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Execs Profited From Bogus Bonuses

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Blue Cross Blue Shield Executives, Bogus Bonuses, Business, Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Care Industry, Business News

BISMARCK, N.D. -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota used premium payments to fund $15 million in employee bonuses, cover $35,000 for a retirement...

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The Most Nightmarish Health Care Reform Bill Ever

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Finance Committee, Obamacare, Public Option, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Barack Obama Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Wellpoint, Politics News

Max Baucus tasked a former executive of a company that was penalized for rescinding the insurance policies of sick people with writing the most powerful health care reform proposal to be crapped out of the Senate.

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Dems Press Insurance Companies On "Purging" Small Businesses

Roll Call | Tory Newmyer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Small Businesses, Bart Stupak, Health Insurance Companies, UnitedHealth Group, Henry Waxman, Aetna, Healthcare Reform, Medica, Humana, Energy and Commerce Committee, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Wellpoint, Democratic Lawmakers, Politics News

Two senior House Democratic lawmakers are seeking new information from six top insurance companies in an ongoing probe of the industry's business prac...

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Occam's Razor Can Cut Down the Health Care Lobbyists

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Health Insurance, Electronic Medical Records, Sweden, Jack Abramoff, Cigna, President Obama, OpenSecrets.Org, Catastrophic Health Insurance, Canada, The Health-Care Industry, Aig, General Motors, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman, Pharmaceutical Industry, Aetna, Federal Deficit, Occam's Razor, Lobbyists, United Health Group, The National Debt, Cyberounds.com, Peter Orszag, Single Payer, Cookbook Medicine, Single Payer Health Care, Japan, Blue Cross Blue Shield, France, Chrysler, Dow Jones, Great Britain, Wellpoint, Max Baucus, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Cuba, Holland, Scandanavia, Politics News

Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.

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The Simple Health Insurance Solution

Don McNay | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Insurance Companies, Obama Healthcare, Congress, Park Foundation, Obama, Health Insurance, Aetna, Kentucky Educational Television, Politics, Cnbc, Government-Subsidies, Richmond Ky, Nancy Pelosi, Wendell Potter, Partridge Foundation, Wnet, Kohlberg Foundation, Premium, Bernard and Audrey Rapoport, Health Care, PBS Documentaries, Blue Dog Democrats, Hillary Care, Ronnie Millsap, P&C Companies, Pbs, Marilyn and Bob Clements, Property and Casualty Insurance Companies, Insurance Agents, Fetzer Institute, The Herb Alpert Foundation, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Fox Business News, Ben Chandler, Public Welfare Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Clu, Health, Hartford, Health Care Reform, Million Dollar Round Table, Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, Bill-Moyers-Journal, Hillary Clinton, Mitch McConnell, Anthem, President Obama, Medical-Loss Ratios, Cigna, Orfalea Family, Aig, Insurance Premium, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, American College, Personal Finance, Bill Moyers, Bill Clinton, Msfs, Life Insurance Companies, Chfc, Kentucky, Don McNay, Thirteen/WNET, Structured Settlements, Vanderbilt University, Claims Adjusters, Eastern Kentucky University, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, John and Polly Guth Charitable Fund, Ket, Business News

I've had my own angry, screaming battles with my health insurance carrier. It seems everyone I've talked to has had a similar experience. I just don't see them marching on Washington about it.

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We Regulate Money, Drugs, Commerce, but not Health. Why?

Brian Ross | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Doctors, President Obama, Insurance, Government Regulation, Politics, Blue Cross, Obama Administration, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Business, Barack Obama, Living, Physicians, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Politics News

Why can't we use the power of the government to really regulate the insurance companies?

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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

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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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

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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Harry and Louise Are Back: Insurers Planning on Double-Crossing Obama

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Harry and Louise, Health Care for America Now, Health Care, President Obama, Politics News

It looks like the message carried by Harry and Louise might be returning, once again payed for by an insurance industry desperately looking for any way to protect their profits.

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Is Offshoring America's Healthcare Next?

Scott Lachut | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Unitedhealth, Offshore, Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Business News

Citing the rising cost of healthcare, several insurers have taken a page out of travel guides for "medical tourism" and begun toying with the idea of sending their patients abroad for routine surgeries.

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I'm Sorry, Mr. Obama, We Don't Accept the Senate Health Care Plan Here.

Brian Ross | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Coverage, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Health, Universal Healthcare, Health Insurance Industry, Universal Health Care, Barack Obama Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

Does Blue Cross gives their customer service employees special training to achieve that monotone, or do they put them in a dungeon to get them to sound like they hate their jobs?

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Fear A Layoff? Go To The Dentist, And Other Insurance Tips

MSN | Liz Pulliam Weston | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Health Coverage, Health Insurance, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, COBRA, No Insurance, Recession, Business News

Americans are dependent on their jobs for more than income. Many of us get our health, life and disability coverage through our work. So as the risk o...

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