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Health Care Company Makes Billions In Profits While Overburdening Its Staff: Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Psychotherapy, Video, Therapy, Unemployment, Mental Health, California, Group Therapy, Foreclosure, Health Care Providers, Kaiser Permanente, Hmos, Health Care, Health Care Company, Business News

Kaiser Permanente, one of the country's largest health care organizations, is providing rushed and sloppy mental health treatment in California by an ...

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"Obamacare" Hater Rick Scott, Now Florida's Governor, Is Doing Exactly What He Falsely Claimed Federal Reform Would Do

Wendell Potter | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Florida, Rick Scott, Unitedhealth, Hmos, Obamacare, Health Care, Managed Care, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Politics News
Wendell Potter

So much for health care choice and competition vanishing with "Obamacare". It seems as if one of the leaders of the anti-reform crowd, Rick Scott, wasn't a true believer in the value of choice and competition after all.

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Insurers' Bait and Switch

Wendell Potter | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: California, Unitedhealth, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Anthem Blue Cross, Cigna, Hmos, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, John Garamendi, Wellpoint, Business News
Wendell Potter

The health insurance industry's long-term strategy is to move all Americans into high-deductible plans, and they're well on their way to achieving that goal. Once there, you can bet the rates will be hiked up.

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The Insurance Industry's Scheme to Circumvent Reform and Make You Pay More Than Ever for Health Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Commonwealth Fund, Rand Corporation, Ahip, Health Insurers, Health Care Reform, Karen Ignagni, Hmos, Gao, Business News
Wendell Potter

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.

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Insurance Industry Flack Screws Up, Points Us to Report We Really Should Read

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Hcan, Public Relations, Ahip, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Hmos, America's Health Insurance Plans, Health Care, Business News
Wendell Potter

Successful flacks know how to use a variety of public relations tricks to obscure the truth -- being selective in the disclosure of information, for instance, or using statistics in misleading ways. But sometimes that can backfire.

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Dear Mr. President, I Wish I Had Known...

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Janny-Scott, Clinton Health Care Plan, Ann Dunham, A-Singular-Woman, Health Care Reform, Stanley Ann Dunham, Cigna, Hmos, Health Care, Barack Obama, Managed Care, Business News
Wendell Potter

Like many others, I've heard President Obama talk about his mother's insurance problems during her final months in 1995. But I didn't realize until now that the company she was pleading with was CIGNA, the one I used to work for.

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'Narrow Network' HMOs Offer Savings, But Fewer Providers

Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Health Insurance Networks, Narrow Network HMOs, Calpers, Hmos, Health Insurance, Narrow Network, Insurance, Insurance Costs, Home News

Thousands of employers in California and across the country are slashing expensive doctors and hospitals from their insurance rosters in a move to hol...

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Winning and Losing Companies Under the New Health Care Bill

Damien Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care, Humana Health Insurance, Stocks, Aetna Insurance, Stock Values, United Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Cash for Clunkers, Cigna Insurance, Hmos, Wellpoint Health Insurance, Business News
Damien Hoffman

In the simplest of words, the health care reform bill has become a Cash for Clunkers program for HMOs. Let's take a look at some of the bigger winners and losers.

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The Next March To Freedom

Lila Nordstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Discrimination, Health Insurance, Hmos, Health Care, Barack Obama, Pre-Existing-Condition, Colorado, Politics News
Lila Nordstrom

America has a new group among the marginalized. I'm not talking about people of any particular race, creed, sexual orientation, or gender. I'm speaking of the victims of corporate intolerance.

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The Ugly Face of Corporate Health Insurance

Bill Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicare, Hmos, Obamacare, Health Care, Wellpoint, Politics News
Bill Baker

Polls say that a slight majority of Americans like their health insurance and don't want to be part of a government system. But Medicare recipients love its free care.

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California Limits HMO Wait Times

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, California Healthcare, Hmos, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — California is poised to become the first state to set time limits for doctors to see patients, the Department of Managed Health Ca...

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Martha Coakley in trouble? Pharma and HMO lobbyists to the rescue

Washington Examiner | Timothy P. Carney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, Insurance Companies, Senate, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Coakley Fundraising, Hmos, Massachusetts, Fundraiser, Health Care, Martha Coakley, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for Preside...

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Shocked at Seeing a Democrat with Guts

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Pres, Hmos, Public Option, Rachel Maddow, Obama, Healthcare Reform, Sarah Palin's Death Panels, Rep. Grayson, Alan Grayson Display, Rayrepresentative Gayson, Alan Grayson Health Care, Politics News
Joan E. Dowlin

Many Republicans have expressed outrage at Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) for his recent display on the floor of the House of Representatives while discussing health care reform.

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What Do You Mean My Doctor Is Dead?

Alex Berliner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthem, Health Care Reform, Blue Cross, Health Insurance, Hmos, Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Los Angeles News
Alex Berliner

Despite its faults, the federal government at least knows when you're dead. That's more than can be said for Blue Cross in Los Angeles, who assigns deceased doctors to customers as 'in network practitioners.'

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Wal-Mart Can Be Our Surprise Salvation: A Two-Part Discussion of the Retail Giant's Health Care Potential

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Health Care Reform, Humor, Hmos, Wal-Mart, Patricia Yarberry, Community Clinics, Politics News
Patricia Yarberry Allen

Ultimately, the political infighting about our health care crisis isn't the point. The possibility of solving it is. I am as surprised as you might be to believe that the best hope lies with Wal-Mart.

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

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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
Joseph A. Palermo

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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At the Heart of the Healthcare Challenge, a Question of Money in Politics

Frank A. Weil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Industry, Healthcare System, Health, Private Health Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Obama Healthcare Reform, Healthcare Reform, Hmos, Healthcare, Politics News
Frank A. Weil

To get to the heart of America's healthcare challenge, we must end the longstanding system of pay-to-play politics by fundamentally reforming the role of private money in federal elections.

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"Freedom Isn't Free" -- Neither Is Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Hmos, President Obama, Afghanistan War, Tea Baggers, Glen Beck, War in Afghanistan, War in Iraq, Sarah Palin, Iraq War, Fox News, Pharmaceutical Companies, Sean Hannity, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were sold to the nation as moral imperatives, not as taxpayer burdens. The health care debate has been framed as a taxpayer burden instead of a moral imperative.

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It's Time to Spay and Neuter the Blue Dogs on Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Blue Dog, Hmos, Ronald Reagan, Blue Dogs and Health Care Reform, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Democratic Party, Democrats, Health Care Bill, Insurance Corporations, Blue Dog Coalition, Tom Delay, Congressional Democrats, Blue Dogs, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Corporations, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The Blue Dog coalition loved spending lavishly on the Iraq war only to rediscover the evil of budget deficits as soon as Obama was elected.

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Taking the Debate out of Healthcare Reform

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Obama, Hmos, Kennedy, Politics News
Jamie Court

Unless HMOs are strictly regulated, either the premiums for policies will be too high or the benefits in the policy too little to really protect Americans.

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Things That Will Survive

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Mass Media, Karl Rove, Hmos, General Motors, Regulatory Policy, Ford and Chrysler, The Kindle, Bernard Madoff, Global Warming, New York, House Republicans, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

The game is now to figure out who will get through this thing, because when we're all safely on shore the survivors will find a world in which they are faced with significantly less competition.

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Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy Part II: Quality Control

Dr. Behzad Mohit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Universal Health Care, Uninsured, Hmos, Single Payer, Insurance, Insurance Companies, Politics News
Dr. Behzad Mohit

Today, our health care system is less regulated and quality controlled than AIG or the stock market. It is no wonder that it may take our country into bankruptcy in a few years.

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Innovations in Phase IV Clinical Trials for Change in Health Care

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Hippa, Congress, Public Health, Fda, Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health, Hospitals, Marketing, Doctors, Medicaid, Medicare, Food and Drug Administration, Hmos, Phase Iv, Pharmaceuticals, Hmo, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

For dying patients with no therapy that is working, compassionate use programs exist to provide drugs in phase II or III clinical trials when the patient was ineligible to participate in the trial.

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A Kick in the Career: Becoming a Doctor? That is so Dial-Up!

Thomas Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doctor Shortage, Medical Careers, Economy, Job Market, Calling, Doctors, Hmos, Health Care, Internal Medicine, Business News
Thomas Stern

Increasingly, the concept of a "calling" seems to only exist in sports or the arts. Nike says "just do it," the implication being that you have to, you're driven to.

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Even As They Criticize, Dems Taking Dollars From Health Care Industry

New York Times | RAYMOND HERNANDEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Industry, Health Care, 2008 Elections, Congress, Hmos, Insurance Companies, Democrats, 2008 Election, Politics News

In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry, eve...

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