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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Cigna, Stephen Hemsley, Edward Hanway, Health Care for American Now, Hcan, Angela Braly, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Insurance Industry, Profits, Max Baucus, Wellpoint, Karen Ignagni, Ahip, America's Health Insurance Plans, Michael McCallister, Rose Ann DeMoro, California Nurses Association, Richard Kirsch, Nancy Ann DeParle, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Kent Conrad, Blanche Lincoln, Politics News
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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Dems Press Insurance Companies On "Purging" Small Businesses

Roll Call | Tory Newmyer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Small Businesses, Bart Stupak, Health Insurance Companies, UnitedHealth Group, Henry Waxman, Aetna, Healthcare Reform, Medica, Humana, Energy and Commerce Committee, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Wellpoint, Democratic Lawmakers, Politics News

Two senior House Democratic lawmakers are seeking new information from six top insurance companies in an ongoing probe of the industry's business prac...

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You May Need a Score Card for Health Care Reform

Scott Lilly | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

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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Major Health Insurance Company Urges Employees To Attend Tea Parties

Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: UnitedHealth Group, Health Insurance Companies, Anti-Health Care Reform, Politics News

At least one major insurer is urging its employees to participate in tea parties. Last week, UnitedHealth Group--the second largest health insurance ...

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Fight Back Against Health Insurance Lies

Robert Greenwald | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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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Health Care vs. White House Beer? Are You Kidding Me?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Beer, Health Care Reform, Harvard University, Barack Obama, Cambridge Police, UnitedHealth Group, Lewin Group, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Is this former lifelong Republican, now an avid Obama supporter, the only American with a sense of fury directed against the divided Democrats when it comes to reforming health care?

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