Health Insurers

Leahy To Introduce Amendment Repealing Antitrust Exemption For Insurers

The Hill | Eric Zimmermann | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics


Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) will file an amendment to the Senate healthcare bill today to repeal the insurance industry's antitrust exemption. The House i...

Health Care Reform 'Toothless,' Big Reforms Not Coming For Years

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics


The White House has a message for Americans suffering under today's health insurance system: "Help is on the way." But not as fast as you might think...

Uninsured Patients Twice As Likely To Die In The ER: Study

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business


CHICAGO — Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the h...

Health Insurers Could Bypass Some Key Reforms

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics


Legislators are designing this new insurance marketplace to protect consumers from many of the pitfalls and inequities in the current system. But even...

Medical Industry Grumbles Over Bill, But It Stands To Gain

The New York Times | Duff Wilson and Reed Abelson | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


For any industry, there has to be at least some good news any time Congress votes to expand the market by tens of millions of customers. But the busi...

Ex-Blue Cross Spokesman Says Health Insurance "Worst Product In American History"

Raw Story | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


The following article was produced by The Raw Story. Teaming with the liberal Brave New Films, a former Blue Cross pitchman is now pitching against...

Health Care Study: Lack Of Insurance Has Led To 17,000 Child Deaths

AFP | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics


Lack of adequate health care may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 US children over the past two decades, according to a study released by...

Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.

The Public Option is Dead as a Doornail

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The public option epitaph was written months ago during the more than two dozen secret meetings that Obama and his aides had with the insurance industry and pharmaceutical bigwigs.

Anthony Weiner: Obama Administration "Half-Pregnant With The Insurance Industry"

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...

Patients Can Still Be Denied Treatment Under Health Care Bills

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 ...

Health Care Bill's Winners And Losers: Drug Makers To Benefit, Insurers Brace For Hit

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...

Ryan Grim

House Vote On Insurance Industry Antitrust Exemption Coming

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


The battle against the health insurance industry is steadily intensifying. House Democrats have formally scheduled a vote to revoke the industry's che...

Obama Weekly Radio Address: Insurers Are "Filling The Airwaves With Deceptive And Dishonest Ads"

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


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Thomas Frank: Conservatives Treating Health Insurers Like 'Panda Bears' That Need 'Our Nurturing'

wsj.com | THOMAS FRANK | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, "The Predator State," to his reading lis...

Daily Pulse: Has Baucus Pulled Snowe's Trigger?

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


Lindsay Beyerstein

To progressives, adopting the "wait and see" approach is like giving Bernie Madoff another five years to run his Ponzi scheme, just to make absolutely sure he's a crook.

No True Competition Among Health Insurers

nytimes.com | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business


Consider the following health insurance plan. It refuses to pay for certain medical care and then doesn't offer a clear explanation. It does pay for ...

Health Insurers Set To Reap Financial Windfall From Health Care Overhaul

Los Angeles Times | Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics


Reporting from Washington - Lashed by liberals and threatened with more government regulation, the insurance industry nevertheless rallied its lobbyin...

Competition Lacking Among Private Health Insurance Companies

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — One of the most widely accepted arguments against a government medical plan for the middle class is that it would quash competition...

Why the Public Option is Critical

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Stephen M. Davidson

The U.S. already has the most competitive health insurance system in the world but competition is a good thing only when it produces innovation that leads to better, less expensive things for sale.

American Medical and Life Insurance Co. Fined For Misleading Ads

Posted 09.12.2009 | New York


ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A health insurer whose TV commercials promised ''peace of mind'' for just $5 a day must stop running the national ads and pay a f...

The Health Insurers Have Already Won: How They Did It

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


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

Health Insurers Aren't the Victims, But the Victimizers

Jamie Court | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics


Jamie Court

Health insurers have demonized themselves through tactics that would get mobsters drummed out of the mafia.

Pelosi Will Keep "Villains" Campaign Contributions

Congressional Quarterly | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called health insurers "the villains" in the unfolding story of the health care overhaul on Thursday, ratcheting...

Jeff Muskus

Pelosi: Health Insurance Companies The Real "Villains"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics


Forget the Blue Dogs, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday. The real "villains" in the fight for health care reform are insurance compan...