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The Good News From Our Citizen Journalism Project

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.05.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Future of Journalism, Claims Denials, Rape, Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Citizen Journalism, Denial of Coverage, Health Care, Healthcare, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes & Ears News
Adam Clark Estes

One of the big questions about the future of journalism is whether the Internet can foster a new alliance between professional reporters and interested citizens. We're seeing signs that the answer is yes.

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More Insurers Are Paying For Alternative Remedies

health.yahoo.com | Marilynn Marchione | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Natural Medicine, Health Insurance, Holistic Medicine, Insurance, Health Care, Alternative Medicine, Living News

Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used...

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A Women's Nation Changes Everything: Or Does It?

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Working Women, Role-Reversal, Housework, Insurance, Divorce, A Women's Nation, Working Mothers, The Shriver Report, Gender Parity, Gender, Business News
Dr. Sasha Galbraith

More than half of the women in a recent survey said they take on significantly more responsibility for house and family, but only 28 percent of men saw it that way.

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My Friend With ALS, He Died Quickly.

Kim Stagliano | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Als, Insurance, Healthcare, Health, Living News
Kim Stagliano

In December, 2007, my dear friend Jim G. was diagnosed with Lou Gerhig's disease, ALS. He died early Sunday morning the 27th of September, in his wife of 29 years' arms in their bathroom.

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Pinnacol Legislation Approved After Hostile Session

Denver Business Journal | Bob Mook | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado Insurance, State-Owned Insurance, Pinnacol Assurance, Insurance, Colorado Legislature, Shawn Mitchell, Morgan Carroll, Insurer of Last Resort, Denver News

Lawmakers from a special Colorado legislative committee Friday approved seven proposed bills intended to change the operations of Pinnacol Assurance, ...

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United Health Group Protest: 14 Arrested During Sit-In Protest Against Insurance Giant (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Protests, Mobilization for Health Care for All, Single Payer, Insurance, United Health Group, Health Care, United Health Insurance, New York News

NEW YORK — New York City police say 14 demonstrators were arrested on criminal trespass charges during a sit-in inside a midtown Manhattan build...

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Chinese Drywall: Insurers Dropping Coverage For Thousands Of Homeowners

Wall Street Journal | M.P. McQueen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Homeowner-Insurance, Universal Group Inc, Insurance, Universal North America, Chinese Drywall, Homeowners, Drywall, Insurance Companies, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Business News

At least two home insurers in Florida have begun dropping policyholders who filed claims for property damage linked to drywall imported from China. D...

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Democratic Health Care Plan Fails, Feeds Fat Cat Insurance Lobby

Ray Hanania | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Lobby, Senator Max Baucus, President Obama, Public Option, Insurance, Re-Election, Campaign Cash Contributions, Reform, Republicans, Democrats, Healthcare, Inside DC, Politics News
Ray Hanania

So let me get this straight. President Barack Obama makes a clarion call to reform healthcare so that the 30 million Americans (not including the 12 m...

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Mad at Greedy Insurers for This Health Care Mess? Then Why Aren't You Mad at Your Greedy Neighbors?

Keli Goff | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Diabetes, Insurance, Insurance Companies, Obesity, Health Care, Politics News
Keli Goff

Obesity costs us as much as $147 billion per year, and smoking costs taxpayers a whopping $300 billion annually, or 1,000 times the amount of the AIG bonuses.

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Fool Me Once: The Insurance Industry Looks to Tort Reform to Pad Profits

Anthony Tarricone | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Aaj, Anthony Tarricone, American Association for Justice, Insurance Industry, Insurance, Tort Law, Ceos, Politics News
Anthony Tarricone

Who came out winners from a decade of tort reform, and of destroying the civil justice system? That would be the insurance industry.

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FDIC Expected To Ask Banks For $36B In Prepaid Insurance Fees

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Fdic, Liquidity, Economy, Liquid, Prepaid Bank Insurance, Recession, Bailout, Insurance, Finance, Failed Banks, Treasury, Banks, Fees, Sheila Bair, Healthy Banks, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. may take the unprecedented step of ordering banks to prepay about $36 billion in premiums to rep...

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A Failure of Citizenship and the Health Care Debacle

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Education, Naturalization, Insurance, Health Care, Voting, Lies, Health Care Reform, Republican Health Care Reform, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Voting should be seen as a privilege rather than as a consequence of where one is born. Voting should be a right earned rather than conferred by fate or the accident of citizenship.

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Daily Pulse: It Could Happen to You

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 09.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Washington Independent, Lindsay Beyerstein, Video, Senate Finance Committee, Public Option, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Iowa Independent, Health, Washington Monthly, Daily Pulse, Reform, Rh Reality, Tmc, Health Care, Bill, The Uptake, Home News
Lindsay Beyerstein

Opponents of health care reform are trying to pit the insured against everyone else.

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Why Is AAA Offering Brain Training to Older Drivers?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Insurance Companies, Driving Fitness, Aging, Crash Rates, Cognitive Fitness, Mobility, Safety, Peter Kissinger, Traffic Safety, Policy, Seniors, Dmv, Insurance, Teens, AAA Foundation, Cognitive Training, Driver Safety, Posit Science, Computerized Cognitive Assessment, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Aaa, Driverzed, Drivesharp, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Peter Kissinger, CEO of the AAA Foundation: Part of making our nation's roads safer is helping mature drivers who wish to stay active -- a quickly growing population -- maintain or improve their driving safety.

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Friday Talking Points [93] -- Lies, Lies And Propaganda

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lies, Go Broke, Reasonable, Reform, Mccain, Midotw, Disrespect, Joe Wilson, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Faith, Health Care, Theological, Sandy Line, Joint Session, Bankruptcy, You Lie, Public Option, Propaganda, Democrat, Congress, Big Government, Lie, Democrats, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Heckle, Obama Speech, Mddotw, Health, Republicans, Line in the Sand, Walk It Down, Bankrupt, Healthcare, President Obama, Speech, Kennedy, First Lady, Obama, Democratic, Media, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Laura Bush, Uninsured, Insurance, Wilson, Liar, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Lies and Propaganda, Heckler, John McCain, House, Framing, Medicaid, Teddy Kennedy, Sherrod-Brown, Talking Heads, Illegal Immigrant, Chris Weigant, Heckled, Medicare, Immigrant, Wkharbhsgahm, Wksarbssgahm, Medicompetition, Kennedycare, Medicomp, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Political discussions in America are fast becoming solely theological in nature.. Each side has their beliefs. Each has their tenets which they fervently defend. Much of this is done on faith.

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Number Of Uninsured New Yorkers Soars

Crain's New York | Barbara Benson | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Health Insurance, Uninsured, Insurance Rates, Public Insurance, Insurance, New York Insurance, Uninsured New Yorkers, New York News

The proportion of uninsured New Yorkers skyrocketed by 2 percentage points in 2008, according to census figures released Friday. A total of 2.72 milli...

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Obama Presses Hard to Unite Dems on Healthcare and Slaps Down Republican "Demagoguery"

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Demagoguery, Public Option, Insurance, Death Panels, Social Security, US Senate, President Obama, Government Takeover, Denial of Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, Medicare, Reform, Socialism, Health Care, US House, Ted Kennedy, Joint Session of Congress, Politics News
Ray Hanania

The President's speech was so powerful it probably sent many of the nation's health insurance industry robber barons into economic cardiac arrest.

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Obama: Addressing the Healing Crisis

James S. Gordon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Congress, Mindbody, Speech, Public Option, Selfcare, Obama, Obama Health Care, 2009, Self-Care, Stress, Mind-Body, Politics, Insurance, Prevention, Health, Health Care, Preventative, Insurance Reform, Health Reform, Healthcare, Living News
James S. Gordon

If every older person were guaranteed a physician with time to talk about life and ways to live it more fully, as well as to discuss the best ways to deal with the inevitability of death, debates about "death panels" would wither.

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Daily Pulse: Obama to Outline Vision for Health Care Reform

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, Congress, Speech, Public Plan, Obama, Reform, The Progressive, Yes Magazine, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Health, Daily Pulse, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, New American Media, Healthcare, The Uptake, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

This is Obama's last chance to recapture the momentum that Democrats lost to corporate-backed town hall hooligans and misinformation during the August recess.

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Daily Pulse: Baucus Coughs Up a Bill

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, Senate Finance Committee, Insurance, Public Option, The Media Consortium, Daily Pulse, Obama, Talking Points Memo, Brian Beutler, Max Baucus, Tmc, Interview, Healthcare, Bill, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

The president lit a fire under Max Baucus (D-Mont) and the Senate Finance Committee by unexpectedly announcing last week that he'd be laying out his own vision for health care reform this Wednesday.

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Wall Street Now Wants to Profit by Selling "Death Bonds"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Politics, terrorismInsurance Companies, Wall Street, Insurance, Government Agencies, The Observer, Derivatives, 9/11, New York Times, Ernst Welteke, Bundesbank, Terrorism, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

After leading the economy to the edge of the abyss, a new derivative has been concocted in a perverse quest for big and bigger bucks.

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Taking Things Off the Table

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Axelrod, White House, Lead, Leadership, Tort Reform, Table, Speech, President Obama, Democratic, Reform, Obama, Seat at the Table, Address, Legislation, Republican, Clinton, Insurance, Bipartisan Bipartisanship, Single Payer, On the Table, Health Care, Trigger, Joint Session, Everything's on the Table, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Democrat, Congress, Democrats, Lines in the Sand, Barack Obama, Off the Table, Chris Weigant, Health, Political Capital, Line in the Sand, Healthcare, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Obama absolutely loves the phrase "everything's on the table." But the time for piling "everything" on "the table" is over. Everything being on the table means that no decisions have been made.

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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dog, Floor, Children, Al Franken, Reform, Casey at the Bat, Town Hall, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Brown, Vetoes, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, West Wing, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Schoolchildren, Reid, Reconciliation, Lincoln, President Bartlet, Signs, Joint Session, Conference Committee, Committee, Public Option, Democrat, Congress, Address to Congress, Floor Vote, School, Democrats, Silly Season, Barack Obama, Progressive, Mddotw, Health, Harry Reid, Bill, Senate, Healthcare, Law, Senator Brown, President Obama, Speech, Sherrod Brown, Obama, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Legislation, Pelosi, Senator, Insurance, Kids, Schoolkids, Ohio, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Speaker, Baseball, House, Franken, Blanche Lincoln, The West Wing, Chris Weigant, Health Insurance, Indoctrination, Veto, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.

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An Open Letter On The Public Option To David Axelrod

Sandy Goodman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Independents, Fines, Cnn, Insurance, Liberals, Public Option, Obama, Republicans, Healthcare, Democrats, Pfizer, Fdr, Hca, David Axelrod, George Bush, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

As a lifelong FDR Democrat, I won't support any health care bill that doesn't have a robust public option. I'd much rather see a bill without one go down to defeat, than have a bill pass without one.

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Daily Pulse: Goldfish and the Public Option

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Talking Points Memo, Insurance, Public Option, Daily Pulse, Vigil, MoveOn.Org, Lindsay Beyerstein, Reform, Obama, Tmc, Washington Independent, The Media Consortium, Healthcare, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

Perhaps the biggest drawback of Obama's hands off approach is that administration can't make a positive case for reform. So, the president has decided to step in and dictate terms to Congress.

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