Health Insurance Industry

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Uninsured, Out of Work and No Public Option? Now That's Un-American

Roberta Lee | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Big Pharma, Public Option, Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Health Care Public Option, Living News

As a physician taking care of people who are losing health care coverage, it's astounding how much distortion I hear in the news about what the president's plan will do to citizens if it's enacted.

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The New York Times Trashes Single-Payer Health Reform

Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Democratic Congress, Single Payer, Health Reform, Barack Obama, Media News

If every person were on Medicare, the overall savings would overwhelm the small increase in the Medicare payroll tax of 5.8%.. Seelye and the Times have never mentioned any of this

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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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Sorry Virginia, Insurance companies aren't Santa

Barbara Dehn | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

I asked my husband's friend, "You mean that Insurance company X doesn't have enough money to provide care to the people who've paid their premiums, but there's more than enough for bonuses for executives?"

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Daily Pulse: Dissecting the Baucus Bill

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Health Insurance Industry, Baucus, Individual Mandate Plan, Public Option, Tapped, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Tim Fernholtz, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News

In capitalism, if your product is too expensive, people don't buy it. Under Baucusism, the government forces you to buy insurance and kicks in some money to help you afford it.

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Democrats Divided Over Waxman's Plan To Grill Insurance Executives

The Hill | Jared Allen | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Henry Waxman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Blue Dog Democrats, Waxman Insurance Hearings, Health Insurance Hearings, Transparency, Politics News

Democrats are split over Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-Calif.) plan to hold high-profile hearings to pressure the insurance industry. Some are convinced tha...

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Health Care Reform: Still An Original And Simple Proposal

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: University of Chicago Medical Center, Senator Max Baucus, Dr. Paul Toffel, Usc, Gang of Six, Health Insurance, Senate Finance Commitee, Healthcare, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Health Insurance Industry, Insurance Industry, Politics News, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Geico, Warren Buffett, Los Angeles Times, Health Care Reform, University of Chicago, Health Action, Keck School of Medicine, Paul Toffel, Politics News

Whose plan gets my nod, for bipartisan reality and feasibility, to save and improve our unique, innovative American health care system and not saddle our country with unsustainable debt? I vote for Senator Max Baucus.

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Who will be the Killer D's

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Obama created the space for the Democrats to work. He outlined a lot of stuff, but did not get specific in the semantics. He opened up the lane once again for prima donna Congresspeople to drive in for the layup.

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Mr. President, Republicans are Sensing Victory, Because You Won't Fight

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, President Obama, Obama Bipartisanship, Obama, Obama Public Option, Health Insurance Industry, Ted Kennedy, Joe the Nerd, Private Health Insurance, Politics News, Medicare for All, Republican, Bipartisanship, Public Option, Medicare, Health Care, Public Health Insurance Plan, Politics News

We need to see President Obama's teeth Wednesday night. I want to know that there is some steel behind the cool facade.

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The 3 Lost Lessons of Healthcare History: Will Obama Re-Learn Them in Time?

John Neffinger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

The New York Times recently reported that the Obama administration is heeding a list of six lessons from previous efforts to reform health care. Unfortunately, the three most crucial lessons were left off the list.

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Health Insurer Enlisting Its Employees To Kill Reform

Free Speech Radio News | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Health Insurance Plans, Ahip, Health Insurance Industry, Hypocrisy, Medicaid, Healthnet, Medicare, Campaign for America's Future, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

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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Some Anti-Reform Doctors Using Scare Tactics On Patients

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Doctors, Health Care, Politics News

Kelley McCahill took her 70-year-old mother to see a plastic surgeon about having a cancerous growth removed from her nose last Thursday. "If not the...

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Your Health Insurer Will Screw You

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Anthony Weiner, Public Option, Public Health Insurance Plan, Health Insurance Loopholes, Health Insurance Premiums, Politics News

Individuals who lack the negotiating leverage that organizations exercise on behalf of their members, wind up paying the highest rates for coverage and are left to hope they won't get trapped by an exclusion or loophole.

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Turn Up the Heat on the Insurance Industry

Peter Dreier | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Boards of Directors, Lobbying, President Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Wellpoint, Max Baucus, America's Health Care Plans, Susan Bayh, Blue Dog Democrats, Campaign Contributions, Angela Braly, Politics News

A few hundred people serve on the boards of the nation's largest health insurance companies. They, the industry they serve, and the politicians who do their bidding, need to be held accountable.

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The Medical Myth of "More Is Better"

Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, End of Life Care, Unnecessary Medical Tests, Health Care, Politics News

It's been rightly said that the most expensive technology in American medicine is the doctor's pen, because with a flourish of the hand he can order an unnecessary test or surgery.

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An Open Letter to Warren Buffett on Health Care: We Need You!

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Mr. Buffett, you're not in the health insurance market, but this might be the opportunity to bring your successful Berkshire companies to the table, to help solve the major issue of our time.

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Bogged Down By Special Interest, Health Care Reform Becomes a Political Tool Instead of a People's Right

Dr. Erika Schwartz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Cinergy, Big Pharma, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, Healthy Lifestyle, Universal Healthcare, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Pharmaceutical Industry, Primary Care, Special Interest Groups, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

Do not allow America to continue being manipulated by special interest groups and help the people of America understand that they must control their own fate.

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Three Reasons Why a Strong Public Option is Likely to be Part of Health Insurance Reform

Robert Creamer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Helath Insurance Plan, President Obama, Charles Grassley, Public Option, Democrats in Congress, Rate Regulation, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Republicans, Breaking News, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

A public option has none of the bureaucratic complexity of rate regulation and uses competitive forces to keep rates down. It is simple and elegant.

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Health-Care Reform: Common Sense Proposals Lawmakers Should Consider

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

My plan is to mandate that the 159 urban medical schools in the U.S. -- remembering that "school" is in their name -- be required to serve the population within their shadows.

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Health-Care Reform: An Original And Simple Proposal

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dr. Paul Toffel, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Usc, Obama Health Care, Insurance Industry, Geico, Keck School of Medicine, Health Care Reform, Los Angeles Times, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare, Paul Toffel, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Medical Center, Health Action, Politics News

Recently, when an old friend asked me if I had a simple solution for the medical insurance and access problems on the front pages of America's newspapers, I told him: "Yes, I do."

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Health-Care Reform was the Key Issue in the 2008 Campaign...What Happened?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Campaign, Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, Corporate Media, Hmos, Health Care Debate, President Barack Obama, Health Care Town Hall Meetings, George W. Bush, Tea Baggers, Health Care Elites, Single Payer, Big Pharma, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance Corporations, Paul Baran, Elites, Tom Delay, Billy Tauzin, The Wealth of Nations, Health Care, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Corporations, Pharmaceutical Industry, Thomas Scully, Adam Smith, Town Halls, John McCain, Democrats, Sarah Palin, Republican Party, Health, Politics News

For some, the system works best when elites make the most fundamental decisions for our society, unencumbered by the trappings of "democracy", and when the population is depoliticized, misinformed, or both.

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The New Voice in Health Care Reform: Voters

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Coverage, Taxes, Uninsured, Insurance, Politicians, Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Obama, Congress, Universal Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Town Hall Protests, Politics News

Voters are not like policy wonks. Only when they get really riled up do they send their message -- loud and clear -- to public officials. Hence the growing public debate over reform.

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Is Obama Selling Us Down the River to Big Pharma?

Bryan Young | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Kurt Vonnegut, Phrma, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Obama Administration, Obama, Obama Big Pharma, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Bringing lobbyists from Big Pharma into the health care negotiations is anathema to the process and makes them feel like they deserve a place at that table.

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The Health Insurers Have Already Won: How They Did It

BusinessWeek | Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Shaping Health Care Reform, Unitedhealth, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurers, Health Care, Transparency, Politics News

As the health reform fight shifts this month from a vacationing Washington to congressional districts and local airwaves around the country, much more...

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Killing Me Softly with Healthcare: How I Was Nearly "Terminated" By My Health Insurance Company

Ester Amy Fischer | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Cancer-Survival, Single Payer Healthcare, Health Insurance, Cancer, Public Health Care Option, Health Care, Healthcare, Living News

One thing I've learned through my ordeal is this: the health insurance industry functions like a gambling casino. Your health -- indeed your life -- has an odd attached to it.

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