By holding insurance companies accountable for how they spend Americans' premium dollars, the Affordable Care Act is improving upon the coverage market as we know it.
Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012
March 23 (Reuters) - WellCare Health Plans Inc said on Friday that a $137.5 million deal to settle a whistleblower suit became effe...
Posted 02.27.2012
By Cora Currier ProPublica A class-action lawsuit in Florida that moved forward this week highlights a little-appreciated aspect of the housing m...
Wendell Potter | Posted 01.14.2012
If there is one organization that insurers despise and fear more than any other, it surely must be Consumer Watchdog.
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.27.2011
President Barack Obama has raised more money from the health care industry than Republican candidates, according to an analysis conducted by the Cente...
Wendell Potter | Posted 10.22.2011
Complying with the new disclosure requirement will mean that insurers will have to spend some money they've never been willing to spend before to provide us with the information we need and in language we can understand.
Wendell Potter | Posted 08.28.2011
If the health insurance industry gets its way, not only will it be able to gut important provisions of the health care reform law, it will put all of us in a forced march into inadequate plans, and, at the same time, into the swelling ranks of the underinsured.
Wendell Potter | Posted 07.31.2011
Private insurers have had their chance to control costs and expand access and have failed miserably. It is time, more and more people believe, to replace them with a single payer: the government.
The New York Times | REED ABELSON | Posted 07.13.2011
The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set...
Wendell Potter | Posted 06.07.2011
Democrats who think Ryan has guaranteed the GOP's demise by proposing to shred Medicare will soon be rudely disabused of that notion. Insurers have shown time and again they can persuade Americans to act against their best interests.
Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011
"They're going to kill you, Wendell," a former CIGNA colleague warned in an email after reading a couple chapters of my book on health insurance company practices. "If I were you, I wouldn't get anywhere near a cliff."
Los Angeles Times | Noam N. Levey | Posted 05.25.2011
The insurance industry is pouring money into Republican campaign coffers in hopes of scaling back wide-ranging regulations in the new healthcare law, ...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won't tolerate blami...
Los Angeles Times | Duke Helfand | Posted 05.25.2011
California regulators are seeking fines of up to $9.9 billion from health insurer PacifiCare over allegations that it repeatedly mismanaged medical cl...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Is the IV Bag half-empty or half-full? Theda Skocpol, the author of a forthcoming book on President Ba...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
The three largest commercial health insurers all beat Wall Street expectations for second-quarter earnings. Other big insurers like Cigna Corp. and Hu...
Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011
The nation's biggest insurers are pressuring regulators to disregard what members of Congress intended when they wrote the law, so that they can keep raking in huge profits for their Wall Street owners.
New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Health insurance companies are lobbying federal and state officials in an effort to ward off strict regulation of premiums and profits u...
D. Brad Wright | Posted 05.25.2011
In America, our work ethic is next to none. We work longer hours each day, more days per week, and more weeks per year than just about anywhere else o...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — In a blunt warning to the health insurance industry, the Obama administration said Monday it won't hesitate to block mergers that t...
Regina E. Herzlinger | Posted 05.25.2011
Why is a public resignation by a fed-up director one of the few ways to publicize information which everyone should have readily available when choosing health insurers?
J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011
If the insurance industry actually cares about health and well-being, it ought to stop investing so heavily in the fast food industry.
Dr. Mark Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011
Excruciating, that's the pain I feel from people all over the country who have let me know we need to work together to stop abusive rate increases from Anthem Blue Cross.
Andrew Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011
If Congress fails to enact meaningful health care reform, insurance companies will continue to function exactly as they do today.
Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 05.25.2011
Legislators are designing this new insurance marketplace to protect consumers from many of the pitfalls and inequities in the current system. But even...
John Arensmeyer | Posted 05.02.2012