Karen Ignagni

AHIP Reacts Unhappily To Reid Remarks

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business


Soon after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced today that health care reform legislation taking shape in the Senate would include a p...

Arthur Delaney

AHIP: Health Care Reform's Ultimate Frenemy

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business


For months now, the lobbyists for America's Health Insurance Plans have been publicly expressing support for the Democratic health-care reform bill --...

Insurance Companies Emerge As Obama's Reform Foe

Washington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics


Now they have an enemy. For months, President Obama and his administration waged their fight for a health-care overhaul without a clear opponent, eve...

Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


Peter Dreier

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.

Health Insurance Companies Want Severe Penalties For People Who Do Not Buy Coverage

The Associated Press | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON (AP)-- The health insurance industry doesn't want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Amer...

Karen Ignagni Won't Talk About Her Health Care Coverage

Mother Jones | —David Goodman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


What kind of health care coverage does the nation's top health insurance lobbyist have? Her trade group refuses to say. Karen Ignagni is the health...

When It Comes to Healthcare, Be Selfish

Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Gerald Sindell

When I see talking heads, "experts," and politicians talking about healthcare, I want them to answer the people's, and only the people's questions.

Top Insurance Lobbyist: Dem "Vilification" Could Kill Reform

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — August will be a make-or-break month for the drive to revamp health care, as members of Congress use the recess to either sell the ...

Health Insurers Aren't the Victims, But the Victimizers

Jamie Court | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics


Jamie Court

Health insurers have demonized themselves through tactics that would get mobsters drummed out of the mafia.

The Incredible Shrinking Health Care Reform

Norman Solomon | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home


Norman Solomon

Notions of universal health care are fading in the power centers of politics -- while more and more attention focuses on the care and feeding of the insurance industry.