Stephen Hemsley

Insuring Good Times at the Mauna Lani

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.26.2011

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Wendell Potter

One of the reasons insurers have been spending less of our premium dollars on medical care in recent years is because they have decided to devote more to meeting the relentless profit expectations, and lavishly rewarding those who succeed.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Meet UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley: Rich, Powerful, Not Yet Famous

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Dreier

Business as usual for Hemsley and UnitedHealth is a chronic pattern of abuse and neglect of its policy-holders, along with a powerful political influence-peddling operation that involves costly campaign contributions.

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If the Insurance Companies Win, We Lose

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Unitedhealth, Cigna Insurance, Stephen Hemsley, Health Insurance Companies, Ed Hanway, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The health care debate is a fight over who gets what. It is a battle between the health insurance industry and the rest of us -- as consumers, as patients, as taxpayers.

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You May Need a Score Card for Health Care Reform

Scott Lilly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Congress, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Stephen Hemsley, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Medicare, UnitedHealth Group, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Medical-Loss Ratio, Barack Obama, Business News
Scott Lilly

It's impossible to fashion a health care system that does not have doctors, medications, and hospitals -- but it is quite easy to imagine a system without private insurers. In fact, private insurers play little if any role in the health care systems of most countries in the world.

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Arthur Delaney

Denied Claims Placed At Health Insurance CEO's Doorstep (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new video puts denied health insurance claims on United Health Care CEO Stephen Hemsley's doorstep. The video, made by Brave News Films' Robert Gr...

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Fight Back Against Health Insurance Lies

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insurance Industry, UnitedHealth Group, Stephen Hemsley, Healthcare Reform, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

Huge insurance corporations like UnitedHealth Group treat the physical livelihoods of average Americans as commodities to exploit for shareholder profits and outsized executive compensation packages.

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