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Top Ten Civil Justice Triumphs Of the Decade!

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Supreme Court, Pharmaceutical Industry, Karl Rove, Bankruptcy, General Motors, Chrysler, Medical Malpractice, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Al Franken, George W. Bush, Wyeth, Washington State, Bill Frist, Arbitration, Politics News
Joanne Doroshow

We look back with pride, and with some amazement really, at these great civil justice wins during the past decade. It hasn't been easy, and there are many to thank.

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Jason Linkins

Evan Bayh's Wife Reaping The Benefits Of Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Lobbyblog, Health Care Lobbying, Evan Bayh, Politics News

Stephen Colbert once remarked, "There are some things that everybody knows, but nobody says." He was referring to something that I've endeavored to...

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"Joe the Bummer:" Lieberman's in the Insurance Industry's Hip Pocket on Health Care Reform

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sen Harry Reid, Healkth Care Reform, President Obama, Public Option, Insurance Industry, Markos Moulitsas, Hartford, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ct, Sen. John McCain, Reconciliation, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

It's time for Democrats to punish Lieberman for his consistent disloyalty, from supporting Sen. John McCain's bid for the presidency in '08 to this latest self-serving ploy.

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Obama's Biggest Mistake

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Insurance Industry, Montana, Melodee Hanes, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Girlfriend, Justice Department, Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney, Home News
Peter Dreier

Baucus asked the White House to appoint his girlfriend, Melodee Hanes, as Montana's U.S. Attorney. Didn't Obama learn anything from their years in Chicago surrounded by the patronage politics of the Daley machine?

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The Other Health Care Option

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Insurance Industry, Alternative to Public Option, Public Option, Freezing Premiums, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

How do we eliminate the creation of a government-run program yet provide millions of Americans with the ability to afford health care coverage? Here's how.

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Ryan Grim

Insurance Industry Antitrust Fight Headed To Conference Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Antitrust, Antitrust Exemption, Nelson Antitrust Exemption, Insurance Anti-Trust, Ben Nelson, Pelosi Antitrust, Ahip, American's Health Insurance Plans, McCarran Ferguson, Politics News

The insurance industry successfully fought off a Senate threat to revoke its antitrust exemption as part of health care reform, but the issue lives to...

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Ryan Grim

Democrats Are United -- For Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Senate Health Care Bill, Mary Landrieu, Filibuster, Obama, Joe Lieberman, Democrats, House, Senate Health Care Debate, Harry Reid, Senate, Insurance Industry, White House, Barack Obama, Insurers, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Gop, Ben Nelson, Health Care, Republicans, Politics News

The Senate has voted to move forward with the health care bill. The vote was 60-39 in favor of debating the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader...

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United Healthcare Urges Employees To Lobby Senators

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Insurance Industry, Lobbyblog, United Healthcare, Business News

The nation's largest health insurance company is recruiting its employees in a grassroots lobbying campaign against health care reform, according to t...

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"Therapy" for Obama and His Demoralization by the Insurance Industry

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Marcia Angell, Abraham Lincoln, Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Obama, Single Payer, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bruce E. Levine

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.

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GOP Health Care Bill WON'T Prevent Insurance Companies From Denying Sick People

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Preexisting Conditions, Preexisting Condition, House, Abortions, Illegal Immigration, Deny Coverage, Obama, Congress, White House, Democrats, Gop Health Care Bill, Insurance Industry, Insurers, Illegal Immigrants, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Senate, Republicans, Politics News

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...

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Harry Reid Reassures Democrats That Joe Lieberman Is On Board With Health Care Bill

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Harry Reid, Insurance Industry, House, Vote, Senate Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Gop, Joe Lieberman, Reid, Health Care Legislation, Health Care, Chairmanship, Republicans, Politics News

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...

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Nebraska Voters Favor Public Option, Want Ben Nelson To Back It

Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Public Option Polls, Public Option, Public Option Polling, Democracy for America, Filibuster, Omaha, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Poll, Public Option Statistics, Insurance Industry, Nelson, Lincoln, Research 2000, Rachel Maddow, Health Insurance, Sen. Nelson, Nebraska, Ben Nelson, Health Care, Politics News

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...

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GOP Health Bill In The Works; Boehner Says Republican Bill Would Extend Insurance Coverage To "Millions"

Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Congress, Health Care Reform Bill, Medical Malpractice, Boehner, Obama, Democrats, Pharma, House, Gingrich, Insurance Industry, Senate, White House, Cantor, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Gop Health Care Bill, Gop, Republican Health Care Bill, Health Care, Republicans, Politics News

Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...

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Ryan Grim

Reid Punts On Insurance Industry Anti-Trust Exemption

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Harry Reid, Insurance Industry, Senate Health Care Bill, Politics News

Senate negotiators have decided not to include a provision revoking the insurance industry's anti-trust exemption in the bill leadership sends to the ...

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Woman Denied Health Care Insurance After Rape Tells Her Story (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Christina Turner, Huffpost Investigative Fund, Hiv, Preexisting Condition, Rape, rapeisnotapreexistingcondition.com, Sexual Assault, Gender Equality, Insurance Industry, Rapisnotaprexistingcondition, Anderson Cooper, Women's Health, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Com, Politics News

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 ...

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Sam Stein and Ryan Grim

Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama's Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ads, Health Care Bill, Trigger, White House, MoveOn.Org, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Filibuster, Obama, Trigger Option, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Maine, House, Insurance Industry, Obama White House, Senate, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Health Care, Politics News

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...

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Dems Go After Antitrust Exemption For Insurers

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Antitrust, Reform, Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Democrats launched a drive at both ends of the Capitol on Wednesday to strip the insurance industry of its decades-old exemption fr...

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Medicare Part D Creators Now Working For Lobbyists With Billions At Stake

ProPublica | Olga Pierce | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Means Ways Committee, Gop, White House, Breaux, Lobbyists, Don Nickles, Obama, Tarplin Downs Young, Tarplin, John Breaux, House Ways and Means Committee, Baucus, Billy Tauzin, Raissa Downs, Breaux Lott Leadership, Downs & Young, Part D, Michelle Easton, John McManus, Lobbying, Medicare Part D, Phrma, Reform, Democrats, Insurance Industry, Drug Industry, Health Care Industry, Max Baucus, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Thomas Scully, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

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...

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A Health Insurance Mandate and Corporate Monopoly

Zack Cooper | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Finance Committee, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Baucus, Obama Health Care, Insurance Mandate, Health Care, Politics News
Zack Cooper

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.

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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

Read More: Market, White House, Losers, Obama, Business, Legislation, Pharma, Politics, Scorecard, Negotiations, Baucus, Wellpoint, Aetna, Novartis, Pfizer, Health Care, Wall Street, Reid, United Health, Stocks, Merck, Winners, Insurance Industry, Senate, Profits, Health Care Reform, Health Insurers, Dodd, Medicaid, Bill, Medco Health, Politics News

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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Obama's Rx For Health Care: Pull Plug On Insurance Companies, Not Grandma

Julie Farby | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Health Care, Insurance Companies, Healthcare Reform, Obama Weekly Address, Barack Obama, Politics News
Julie Farby

Crazed, shrieking mobs of birthers, secessionists, and teabaggers are one thing. As annoying and demented as they may be, Barry knows these confederat...

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CNN's Castellanos' Firm Is Ad Buyer For AHIP's Anti-Health Care Ad Blitz

Media Matters | Matt Gertz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Attacks, Insurance Industry, Alex Castellanos, Castellanos Ahip Ad, Republicans Health Care, Ahip Anti-Health Care, Castellanos Anti-Health Care, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Castellanos Health Care, Ahip Anti-Health Care Ad, Health Insurance Reform, Media News

Media Matters for America has obtained evidence that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos' political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for ...

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Senate Democrats Launch Attack On Insurer Anti-Trust Exemption

POLITICO | Patrick O'Conner and Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Schumer Insurers Exemption, Insurance Industry, Schumer Health Care, Health Care Debate, Democrats Health Care, Insurance Industry Exemption, Health Care Reform, Insurer Anti-Trust Exeption, Reid Health Care, Senate Health Care, Politics News

The long-simmering tension between insurers and congressional Democrats is erupting into open warfare, with lawmakers stepping up their push to revoke...

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Where Are All the democrats in Congress ? Little "d" Intended

Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Insurance Industry, Public Option, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Insurance & Pharmaceutical Lobbies, Preventive Medecine Socialism, Obesity, Democrats, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Vivien Lesnik Weisman

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?

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An Open Letter to Senator Max Baucus : Save Your Health Care Bill With Simple Reform

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Bill, Public Health Insurance Plan, Senator Max Baucus, Dr. Paul Toffel, Usc Medical School, Senate Finance Committee, Gang of Six, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Insurance Industry, Medical Schools, Keck School of Medicine, Health Care Reform, Los Angeles Times, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Reform, America's Health Choices Act, Politics News
Dr. Paul Toffel

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.

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