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7/1/09
Mrs. Q of Glendale, AZ wrote to tell us about her struggles getting and keeping health insurance for her family as a small business owner.
Read MoreFOUL PLAY
7/1/09
Insurance companies refusing to cover costs of emergency care based on a final diagnosis, not a patient's symptoms.
Read the Insurance Company Abuse Book!
Read MoreFIXING THE GAME
7/1/09
Insurance companies claim they want to help small businesses be able to afford health care coverage, but they are unwilling to explain how they set their premiums or why they increase so much year to year.
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INSURE-RANTS
Got a problem with a health insurance company? Want to rant about it? Do it here!
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Drug Manufacturers Promise $80 Billion In Rx Savings—But How Much Are They Saving Themselves?
Drug manufacturers are not acting out of a charitable impulse. They are trying to forestall strong health reform legislation that would cost the industry more than it is promising. PhRMA took action in 2003 when adding a drug benefit to Medicare seemed inevitable and managed to keep a public health insurance plan—Medicare—from cutting drug costs. Now the threat of a new public health insurance option for people under 65 has spurred the powerful lobby into action once more, with promises of cooperation and voluntary discounts. Don’t be fooled! We can do better.
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A Health Insurance Insider Blows the Whistle on the Industry’s Abusive Practices
“My name is Wendell Potter and for 20 years, I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies, and I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick—all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.” With that powerful indictment, Mr. Potter began his Congressional testimony, shining a bright light on the abusive practices of this very secretive industry and calling for a strong public health insurance plan option to set a “benchmark in transparency and quality.”
RECENT POSTS
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06/19/09 - Nothing Intimidates Health Insurers Like the Public Health Insurance Plan
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06/05/09 - Get Sick. See Health Insurance Vanish. Watch States Fail to Curb Insurance Company Practice.
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05/29/09 - Stuck in Your Job Because You Need the Health Benefits? You’re Not Alone.
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05/15/09 - Medicaid Is Not an Alternative to a New Public Health Insurance Option
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05/08/09 - Obama Administration Makes Clear Its Support for Public Health Insurance Plan
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05/01/09 - The Privatized Medicare Drug Benefit: Higher Costs and Dangerous Gaps in Coverage
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04/24/09 - Beware of the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Health Insurers Push on Health Reform
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04/17/09 - Will Government Give Public Health Insurance an Unfair Advantage? Experience Tells Us No.
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04/03/09 - Do You Know What You Are Getting When You Buy Health Insurance?
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Medical Bills Cause More Than Half of Bankruptcies
More than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies involve medical bills, according to researchers at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University.
LEARN MOREThat is the finding of a Kaiser Family Foundation survey.
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