Given spotty health care in countries such as China or Mexico, “Health insurance alone might be worth people coming here … especially if you’ve got a …
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Archive for August 10th, 2009
DownWithTyranny!: Standing Up To Big Insurance
Monday, August 10th, 2009Today HuffPo’s LobbyBlog pointed out an interview with the Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the insurance industry’s top lobbying firm. Fanatically opposed to single payer– or even the compromise public …
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Like Your Health Insurance? Maybe You Shouldn’t.
Monday, August 10th, 2009First, what does it mean to say that you are satisfied with your health insurance? Consider homeowner’s insurance. Until you need it — your house burns …
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The Washington Independent » Gladney’s Lawyer: He’s Unemployed …
Monday, August 10th, 2009For one, Brown said, contrary to recent reports like this one from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gladney wasn’t laid off and has health insurance. “He’s just unemployed,” says Brown, and “has insurance through his wife.” …
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Feds allege Mo. funeral scheme could cost $600M
Monday, August 10th, 2009Sutton was president and chief financial officer of National Prearranged Services Inc. and a director of two of its affiliated life insurance companies, …
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Deadly Doctors Exist Now, in the Health Insurance Industry | HULIQ
Monday, August 10th, 2009I wrote earlier about Sarah Palin’s rant about Obama and a so-called “Death Panel,” which would decide who gets treatment based on their possible “level of productivity” in society. That rant was based, in part, on an op-ed by Lt.
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t r u t h o u t | Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell …
Monday, August 10th, 2009Amy Goodman: As the healthcare reform debate intensifies on Capitol Hill, we spend the hour today with a former top executive from one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies who has begun exposing some of the industry’s …
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What Free Market in Health Insurance? | Anything Peaceful
Monday, August 10th, 2009John Goodman of NCPA has no superior when it comes to analyzing the economics of the healthcare industry. Here’s his latest post on the insurance problem. Key.
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Hispanics watching health care debate closely
Monday, August 10th, 2009She’s paying out of pocket for the exam, and like one-third of Hispanics, the mother of nine doesn’t have health insurance. Latinos like this immigrant from …
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Top insurance lobbyist: August key in health drive
Monday, August 10th, 2009Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, told editors and reporters from The Associated Press that recent broadsides against the …
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