Michelle Obama paid a visit to the Veterans Affairs headquarters on Tuesday, part of a tour of all cabinet department headquarters, and thanked VA emp...
D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
One of the key elements of reform to which insurers are opposed is the taxing of so-called "Cadillac Plans." Their reasoning? These plans are big, expensive, moneymakers for the insurers.
The Hill | Jordan Fabian | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that the Obama administration is "half-pregnant" with health insurers and pharmaceutical companies, which...
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
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."
Huffington Post | Eric Sorensen | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
The parents of a two-year-old girl in Colorado are unable to obtain health insurance for their daughter because the insurer, United Healthcare Golden ...
Zack Cooper | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The only way to go from sickness care to health promotion is with both tougher regulation of insurance companies and a meaningful mandate for individuals to buy health insurance.
Ian Pearl | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
I know firsthand that our health care system can provide life-saving care. But I'm living proof that insurance-company "death squads" behind closed doors routinely make life-sustaining benefits vanish.
latimes.com | Lisa Girion | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
By requiring insurers to cover everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions, healthcare reform will make it more difficult for insurers to control ...
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Sen. Kyl: "I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance."
Robert Reich | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
If Obama doesn't weigh in forcefully and say "no" to the hush money arranged in January for Big Pharma, big insurance, and the AMA, America's middle class will get walloped. And so will he in 2012.
Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
Phil Ellis may be the most powerful guy you've never heard of in the health-care debate. A senior analyst with the Congressional Budget Office, Ellis ...
Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
After a whirlwind week that saw their family featured on the front page of The Huffington Post and $30,000 raised to help them pay their overwhelming ...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The health insurance industry does not make obscenely huge profits by selling health insurance that keeps us healthy, but by selling us the idea that health insurance keeps us healthy.
Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
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.
Norman Goldman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
The health insurance industry has us all by the throat -- and yet they want more! They have a "10 Point Stranglehold Program" on America -- but they want 13. Here's what I mean:
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
We need a broad coalition to immediately repeal the insurance industry's exemption from complying with Federal anti-trust laws.
Bismarck Tribune | Tiffany Patterson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
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...
Allyson Kapin | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Health Insurance companies have waged a war against women and people who need them the most in the United States.
Lesley Stern | Posted 10.15.2009 | Comedy
It doesn't really matter why you need the money, all you know is that life as you know it will cease to exist if you don't get your hands on a big chunk of cash. Yesterday.
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living
Who exactly are these uninsured people we keep hearing about? They're not what many people expect. The vast majority of the uninsured -- 81 percent -- come from working families with low incomes.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Price fixing and deal making is absolutely illegal in other businesses, but in the insurance industry, because of an anti-trust exemption, customers are duped without repercussions.
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
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.
Robert Reich | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
Health insurers have just made the best argument yet about why a public insurance option is necessary.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The very nature of the health insurance industry is antithetical to its stated reason for being: helping people stay well and to get better.
Robert Scheer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The health care debate has become a convenient distraction, for both political parties, from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.
Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact