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

Raw Story | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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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...

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

AFP | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

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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.

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The Public Option is Dead as a Doornail

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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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.

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

The Hill | Jordan Fabian | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that the Obama administration is "half-pregnant" with health insurers and pharmaceutical companies, which...

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Patients Can Still Be Denied Treatment Under Health Care Bills

latimes.com | Lisa Girion | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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By requiring insurers to cover everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions, healthcare reform will make it more difficult for insurers to control ...

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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

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

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House Vote On Insurance Industry Antitrust Exemption Coming

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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

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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

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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...

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Daily Pulse: Has Baucus Pulled Snowe's Trigger?

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

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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.

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No True Competition Among Health Insurers

nytimes.com | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

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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 ...

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Health Insurers Set To Reap Financial Windfall From Health Care Overhaul

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

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

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Competition Lacking Among Private Health Insurance Companies

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business

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

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Why the Public Option is Critical

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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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.

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American Medical and Life Insurance Co. Fined For Misleading Ads

Posted 09.12.2009 | New York

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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...

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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

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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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Health Insurers Aren't the Victims, But the Victimizers

Jamie Court | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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

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Pelosi Will Keep "Villains" Campaign Contributions

Congressional Quarterly | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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

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Pelosi: Health Insurance Companies The Real "Villains"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

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

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Health Insurers Bilked Patients Of Billions Of Dollars, According To Senate Report

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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Health insurers have forced consumers to pay billions of dollars in medical bills that the insurers themselves should have paid, according to a report...

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Heat Is On Health Insurers

Los Angeles Times | Lisa Girion | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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With medical costs rising, record numbers of people losing their coverage and healthcare at the top of the domestic agenda, health insurers found them...

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Health Insurer Paid Bonuses For Dropping Sick Policyholders

Los Angeles Times | Lisa Girion | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much mon...

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