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Madison Leuchtmann: Girl Denied Insurance Coverage On Verge Of Losing Her Hearing (VIDEO)

Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Ear Canal, Hearing Aid, Insurance Denials, Alex Lange, Aislin Bates, Health Care Reform, Hearing Devices, Madison Leuchtmann, Cigna, Health Care, Bilateral Artesia, Business News

As a result of being denied insurance coverage, a six-year-old child in Missouri may never be able to hear again. Fox2Now in Saint Louis has word ...

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Joe -- We Know Where You Live.

Suzanne Langlois | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Healthcare Foundation 0f Connecticut, Cigna, Juan-Figueroa, Joseph Lieberman, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Aetna, Senate Health Bill, Dan Malloy, Politics News

Senator Joseph Lieberman is the rarest of creatures, a political Chimera. He calls himself an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats and is at his core a staunch conservative.

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RNC Insurance Plan Covers Abortion

AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nrcc, Republican National Convention, Rnc, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Gail Gitcho, Bart Stupak, Cigna, Elective Abortion, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strong...

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The Billionaires' Latest Guerrilla Musical

Clifford J. Tasner | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Guerilla Musical, Cigna, Billionaires, Public Option, Billionaires for Wealthcare, Politics News

When CIGNA Representatives refused to speak with protesters at their offices last Wednesday morning, the Billionaires For Wealthcare decided to speak on CIGNA's behalf, and a guerrilla musical broke out.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Cigna, Stephen Hemsley, Edward Hanway, Health Care for American Now, Hcan, Angela Braly, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Insurance Industry, Profits, Max Baucus, Wellpoint, Karen Ignagni, Ahip, America's Health Insurance Plans, Michael McCallister, Rose Ann DeMoro, California Nurses Association, Richard Kirsch, Nancy Ann DeParle, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Kent Conrad, Blanche Lincoln, Politics News

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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CIGNA Employee Flips Off Mother Of Dead Girl Denied Transplant

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Cigna Hilda Sarkisyan, Hilda Sarkisyan, Cigna Liver Transplant, Cigna, Bearing Witness, Cigna Gives Finger to Mother, Business News

A CIGNA employee gave the finger -- literally -- to a woman whose daughter died after the insurance giant refused to cover her liver transplant. H...

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Cigna CEO Hanway: Obstacle to Health Insurance Reform

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Business Roundtable, Edward Hanway, Health Care for America Now, Cigna, Lobbying, Hcan, Health Care Reform, Natalin Sarkisyan, Wendell Potter, America's Health Insurance Plans, Health Insurance Reform, Campaign Contributions, Politics News

Natalin Sarkisyan was a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., who had leukemia and needed a liver transplant. Cigna said the procedure was "too risky." In December 2007, Sarkisyan died.

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Citizens Confront WellPoint: Poster Child for Health Insurance Reform

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Citizens will pay a visit today to WellPoint's Indianapolis headquarters to protest the giant insurance company's abusive practices and its opposition to real health care reform.

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Help Us Investigate How Often Health Insurers Deny Claims

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.18.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: House of Representatives, Unitedhealth, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, Health Care Reform, Health Care, America's Health Insurance Plans, Healthcare, California Nurses Association, Eyes & Ears News

Amid all the loud arguments about the proper role for government and private companies in American health care, one point often seems lost: Exactly ho...

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CIGNA and the Health Insurance Racket

Robert Greenwald | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Brave New Films, Sick for Profit, Cigna, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

The response to "The Health Insurance Racket" (which profiles CIGNA) was both unexpected and overwhelming. Our e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, and blog were flooded with stories from people hurt by CIGNA.

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Why Did Health Insurance Stocks Go Up After The President's Speech?

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Reform, Private Health Insurance, Marcy Wheeler, Human, Barack Obama, Health Care Speech, Ezra Klein, Health Care Reform, Cigna, United, Aetna, Wellpoint, Politics News

The president singled out insurance companies for special criticism in his speech on Wednesday. So why did health insurance stock prices go up the next day?

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Wendell Potter and Health Insurance Industry Misinformation

Jake Whitney | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Cigna, Whistleblower, Death Panels, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Wendell Potter, Democrats, Bureaucrat, Republicans, Politics News

Potter was vice president of corporate communications for Cigna, the fourth biggest health insurance company in America, when he decided to resign and become a public advocate for reform.

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The Audacity of Obama

Claudia Ricci | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Health, Insurance Companies, President of the United States, Speech, Barack Obama, Cigna, Audacity of Home, US Senate, Aetna, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Wellpoint, Politics News

Tragically, it's almost as though President Obama and his handlers don't get it. They don't see what we saw as he was swept into office on a groundswell of grass roots support in January.

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PacifiCare's Kill Rate 40%, CIGNA's 33% According to Government Data

Jamie Court | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pacificare, Health Care Reform, Cigna, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

President Obama will be addressing Congress next week about his vision for health care reform. How about a vision that holds health insurers legally accountable for delaying and denying necessary medical care?

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Regaining the Momentum on Health Care Reform

Chris Shiflett | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foo Fighters, Rush Limbaugh, MoveOn.Org, Acorn, Seiu, Max Baucus, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Health Insurance, Cigna, Aetna, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Canada, Politics News

Our job -- liberals, progressives, union leaders, public health advocates, community groups, and even rock-and-roll performers -- is to challenge the lies and distortions put out there by the Fox News crowd.

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It's Not Over Until You've Tried These Six Things, Mr. President

Rob Warmowski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Notice that the insurance industry-funded opposition to reform is well-managed enough to not send shouters and swastika sign-wavers to the town halls you are scheduled to appear at.

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

Michele Swenson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corporate Bureaucrats, CEO Ron Williams, Wall St.-Run Health Care, Underinsured, Survival-of-the-Fittest Capitalism, Stock Options, Cigna, Corporate and Washington Entitlement, Congresspersons-Turned-Industry Lobbyists, CEO Karen Ignani, Medical Loss Ratios, Uninsured, Insurance Acquisitions and Mergers, Wellpoint, Shrinking Health Coverage Competition, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Government-Run Health Care, Socialism, Aetna, Ahip, Privileged vs. Undeserving Underclass, William McGuire, Bill Moyers, Politics News

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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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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Will The White House Embrace CIGNA Whistleblower? (VIDEO)

Jamie Court | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Universal Health Care, Obama, Cigna, Politics News

Former CIGNA executive Wendell Potter is the linchpin in the Democratic strategy to show the middle class that health insurance reform will help them.

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The Simple Health Insurance Solution

Don McNay | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

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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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Whiteous Indignation

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Be they the Sergeant Crowleys of America, the Aetnas or the Cignas, inequities will continue until The People make them end.

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Fear and Waiting: What the Wise County Clinic Means This Year

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 08.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Virginia, Consumers Union, Wise County, Offthebus Citizen Journalism, Stan Brock, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Cigna, Frank Luntz, Frank Luntz Healthcare, Health Care, Healthcare, Bill Moyers, Eyes and Ears, Home News

A free medical clinic in the poor southwestern part of Virginia treated over 1,500 patients, some driving up to five hours and sleeping in their cars to secure a place in line.

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Interview with Health Insurance Exec/Whistleblower Wendell Potter

Rob Kall | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Cigna, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Healthcare, Politics News

"I think it's very important to understand that the private insurance industry is not trustworthy for individuals, businesses or for the government," says Potter.

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