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The nation's largest health insurance company is recruiting its employees in a grassroots lobbying campaign against health care reform, according to t...
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Obama is trapped in the same kind of thinking that initially demoralized his hero Abraham Lincoln, who ultimately rejected that kind of thinking, regained his morale, and fought against what was morally wrong.
Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill in the next few days. Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday that the plan woul...
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthcare reform, accor...
Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
If Ben Nelson decides to filibuster a Democratic health care bill that includes a public insurance option, he should expect to lose support among Nebr...
Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Senate negotiators have decided not to include a provision revoking the insurance industry's anti-trust exemption in the bill leadership sends to the ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Christina Turner was drugged and raped by two men in 2002. After taking anti-HIV drugs prescribed by her doctor as a preventative measure, Turner was ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as p...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democrats launched a drive at both ends of the Capitol on Wednesday to strip the insurance industry of its decades-old exemption fr...
ProPublica | Olga Pierce | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollar...
Zack Cooper | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The only way to go from sickness care to health promotion is with both tougher regulation of insurance companies and a meaningful mandate for individuals to buy health insurance.
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...
Julie Farby | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Crazed, shrieking mobs of birthers, secessionists, and teabaggers are one thing. As annoying and demented as they may be, Barry knows these confederat...
Media Matters | Matt Gertz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
Media Matters for America has obtained evidence that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos' political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for ...
POLITICO | Patrick O'Conner and Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The long-simmering tension between insurers and congressional Democrats is erupting into open warfare, with lawmakers stepping up their push to revoke...
Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
We live in a country where 400,000 people die every year not from a disease, but from what they eat -- and this is not considered relevant to health care reform?
Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
I've reviewed the current form of the your Senate Finance Committee bill, which is basically a good compromise, but has significant watered-down defects as it's about to go to vote.
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
I have little sympathy for Baucus at this point, when he complains that his adversaries have had time to put out a report attacking his bill. Because there is one reason that they've had all that time.
David Dayen | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
The new health insurance rates offered by the Maine Superintendent do not prevent Anthem from making a profit. But Anthem wants the state of Maine to guarantee a 3% profit as a Constitutional right.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Money spent on abstinence education is a waste, except for those pandering to please a minority of citizens who do tend to vote consistently.
Anthony Tarricone | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Who came out winners from a decade of tort reform, and of destroying the civil justice system? That would be the insurance industry.
David Spiegel | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
So the health scare mongers accuse the government of what the private insurers are now doing. The anti-change 'protesters' are angry and they're not gonna take it any more. The only problem is that the private insurers have already taken it, and the anti-reformers are angry at the wrong people.
David Dayen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
Shocking that Mitch McConnell would leap to the defense, Will Ferrell-style, of a health insurer based in his state which has feathered his nest to the tune of six figures, no?
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The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business