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Nine Arrested At WellPoint Insurance Sit-In (PHOTOS)

Special To Huffington Post | Joseph Huff-Hannon | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Slidehuge, Health Care Reform, Slideshow, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Mobilization-for-Health-Care-for-All, Wellpoint, Protesters, Business News

Simone Morse, a 19-year old student at Hunter College, was the first to be handcuffed and pulled up from the floor this morning at 1 Liberty Plaza in ...

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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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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

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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In Washington, the Revolving Door Is Hazardous to Your Health

Bill Moyers | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liz Fowler, Campaign Finance Reform, Michelle Easton, Senate Finance Committee, David Graham Phillips, Public Option, Lobbying, Health Care Reform, Revolving Door, Washington DC, Max Baucus, Barack Obama, Wellpoint, Politics News

You can't tell the players without a scorecard in the old Washington shell game. Lobbyist out, lobbyist in. They've been plowing this ground for years, and the soil has never been so fertile.

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Media Discovers WellPoint "Right To Profit" Case

David Dayen | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Anthem, Wellpoint, Insurance Industry, Health Care, Maine, Media News

The new health insurance rates offered by the Maine Superintendent do not prevent Anthem from making a profit. But Anthem wants the state of Maine to guarantee a 3% profit as a Constitutional right.

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

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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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WellPoint Subsidiary Fights Maine Over Big Rate Hike (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Anthem Blue Cross Sues Maine, Maine Insurance Rate Hike, Wellpoint Lawsuit, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Wellpoint Rate Hike, Anthem Blue Cross Rate Hike, Wellpoint, Business News

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer, wanted the state to approve an average rate hike ...

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WellPoint Cuts Workers' Health Insurance Benefits

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Wellpoint Cuts Benefits, Wellpoint Rescissions, Wellpoint Workers Benefits, Wellpoint Benefits Cut, Wellpoint Insurance, Wellpoint Health Insurance, Wellpoint Tea Parties, Wellpoint Benefits, Wellpoint, Business News

WellPoint health insurance company, which has encouraged its employees to lobby against health care reform, is now cutting their benefits. The ins...

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Citizens Confront WellPoint: Poster Child for Health Insurance Reform

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Citizens will pay a visit today to WellPoint's Indianapolis headquarters to protest the giant insurance company's abusive practices and its opposition to real health care reform.

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Why Did Health Insurance Stocks Go Up After The President's Speech?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Reform, Private Health Insurance, Marcy Wheeler, Human, Barack Obama, Health Care Speech, Ezra Klein, Health Care Reform, Cigna, United, Aetna, Wellpoint, Politics News

The president singled out insurance companies for special criticism in his speech on Wednesday. So why did health insurance stock prices go up the next day?

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The Baucus Plan: By Lobbyists, For Lobbyists

Jenna Staul | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill, Robert Gibbs, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Lobbyblog, Wellpoint, Transparency, Business News

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs expressed some annoyance yesterday that lobbyists were clued in to the health care plan proposed by Sen. Max Baucus...

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The Most Nightmarish Health Care Reform Bill Ever

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Finance Committee, Obamacare, Public Option, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Barack Obama Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Wellpoint, Politics News

Max Baucus tasked a former executive of a company that was penalized for rescinding the insurance policies of sick people with writing the most powerful health care reform proposal to be crapped out of the Senate.

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Baucus Co-Op Plan "Authored" By Ex-Insurance Industry VP

Campaign Silo | Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Mike Ross, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Lobbyists, Healthcare Cooperatives, Kent Conrad, PhRMA Lobby, Max Baucus, American Medical Association, Healthcare Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Wellpoint, Politics News

When Max Baucus circulated his draft plan earlier this week, the PDF documentation page (image) indicates that the "author" was ex-Wellpoint VP Liz Fo...

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The Audacity of Obama

Claudia Ricci | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Health, Insurance Companies, President of the United States, Speech, Barack Obama, Cigna, Audacity of Home, US Senate, Aetna, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Wellpoint, Politics News

Tragically, it's almost as though President Obama and his handlers don't get it. They don't see what we saw as he was swept into office on a groundswell of grass roots support in January.

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The "Insurance Companies Support Health Care Reform" Gambit

David Dayen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Individual Mandate, Insurance Industry, Cost Controls, Public Option, Health Care, California, Blue Cross, Lobbying, Medicare, Wellpoint, Politics News

Private industry has begged off completely from limiting health care costs through any means other than denying coverage to their customers and rationing.

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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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New York Times' Insurance Industry Tearjerker Tries To Change The Subject From Industry Practices

David Dayen | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Public Option, Traditional Media, Rationing, Wellpoint, New York Times, Health Care, Humana, Astroturfing, Politics News

The New York Times published a very nice press release from the desk of Humana, one of the nation's largest health insurance companies.

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Turn Up the Heat on the Insurance Industry

Peter Dreier | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Boards of Directors, Lobbying, President Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Wellpoint, Max Baucus, America's Health Care Plans, Susan Bayh, Blue Dog Democrats, Campaign Contributions, Angela Braly, Politics News

A few hundred people serve on the boards of the nation's largest health insurance companies. They, the industry they serve, and the politicians who do their bidding, need to be held accountable.

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The Tyranny of Wall St.-Run Health Care: No CEO Left Behind

Michele Swenson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corporate Bureaucrats, CEO Ron Williams, Wall St.-Run Health Care, Underinsured, Survival-of-the-Fittest Capitalism, Stock Options, Cigna, Corporate and Washington Entitlement, Congresspersons-Turned-Industry Lobbyists, CEO Karen Ignani, Medical Loss Ratios, Uninsured, Insurance Acquisitions and Mergers, Wellpoint, Shrinking Health Coverage Competition, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Government-Run Health Care, Socialism, Aetna, Ahip, Privileged vs. Undeserving Underclass, William McGuire, Bill Moyers, Politics News

The insurance industry has shifted to selling so-called "consumer-driven" plans with very high deductibles that shift a great deal of health care cost from employers and insurers to individuals.

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Occam's Razor Can Cut Down the Health Care Lobbyists

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Health Insurance, Electronic Medical Records, Sweden, Jack Abramoff, Cigna, President Obama, OpenSecrets.Org, Catastrophic Health Insurance, Canada, The Health-Care Industry, Aig, General Motors, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman, Pharmaceutical Industry, Aetna, Federal Deficit, Occam's Razor, Lobbyists, United Health Group, The National Debt, Cyberounds.com, Peter Orszag, Single Payer, Cookbook Medicine, Single Payer Health Care, Japan, Blue Cross Blue Shield, France, Chrysler, Dow Jones, Great Britain, Wellpoint, Max Baucus, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Cuba, Holland, Scandanavia, Politics News

Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.

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