Complex state level battle over stop-loss coverage could eliminate crucial consumer protections.... Read more»
The big five health insurance companies have begun reporting their third quarter 2012 earnings and so far, they are pleasing their shareholders with profits that are better than Wall Street expected, in large part because they are doing especially well in one key area: Medicare.
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Pay no attention to GOP governors and House leaders; insurance firms need new customers.... Read more»
Studies of the population at large, and conducted by nonprofit organizations that don’t sell insurance have found that high-deductible plans often are the wrong kind of coverage for many Americans. ... Read more»
For several years now, insurance companies have been ‘purging’ small business accounts they no longer consider profitable enough or that their underwriters believe pose too much risk.... Read more»
When President Barack Obama’s mother struggled with being denied health care insurance, it may have been because he wasn’t yet important enough to help her.... Read more»
One of the reasons I left my job as a PR executive for the health insurance industry was because I could not in good conscience be a pitchman for the sort of fabulously profitable benefit plan that often provides little more than the illusion of coverage.... Read more»
Even as it plowed tens of millions of dollars into ads this year to help mostly Republicans notch Congressional victories, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was initiating a new effort to raise millions more from energy, health insurance, financial services, and other firms to fund a new anti-regulatory campaign.... Read more»
Everybody knows money talks in politics, but people—and particularly the press—rarely pay attention to exactly how. It can define potential alternatives, invent arguments, inundate with propaganda, and threaten with merely hypothetical opposition.... Read more»
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