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Giving Back and Getting Balanced

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Partnership for a Healthier America, Personal Health, Common Threads, Work-Life Balance, Balance, Diabetes, Childhood Nutrition, UnitedHealth Group, Healthcare, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News

If we do not change our habits by 2020, children today will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. It would be the first time that this has happened in 200 years.

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Health Insurers Make Record Profits As Many Americans Postpone Care

The New York Times | REED ABELSON | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Health Insurance Companies, Health Insurers, Colonoscopies, Health Care Reform, Mammograms, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Health Insurance, Health Care, Deductibles, Business News

The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set...

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Consumers Win an Important Battle Against Insurers, Thanks to State Insurance Commissioners

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, State Insurance Commissioners, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, UnitedHealth Group, Health Care Reform Law, Health Care, Mlr, Politics News

State insurance commissioners did the right thing for consumers when they refused to cave in to intense pressure from the profit-obsessed insurance industry to gut an important provision of the health-care-reform law.

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Consumers Win An Important Battle Against Insurers, Thanks to State Insurance Commissioners

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Unitedhealth, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, UnitedHealth Group, Naic, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Mlr, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

Earlier this week I asked you to send thank-you notes to one of America's biggest health insurers for helping to shed light on an important policy mat...

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Progressives and Conservatives Agree: Single Payer Healthcare Is Inevitable

Rob Stone M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicare for All, Liz Fowler, UnitedHealth Group, Single Payer, Aetna, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Wellpoint, Business News

The reality is that single payer, Medicare for All, is not inevitable, nor is there any guarantee the ACA won't bankrupt us while enriching the corporations that lobbied for it.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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 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

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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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