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DOJ Threat Ends Michigan Health Insurance Deal – Main Justice
“We welcome the decision by Blue Cross-Michigan and Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan to abandon their deal, which will preserve competition among health insurance companies in Lansing,” Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney …
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Health Insurance Industry Moans That It’s Being Unfairly Vilified …
To hear them tell it, the insurance industry is a low-profit industry that spends just one cent of every premium dollar on administration and strives to reduce costs by encouraging efficiencies. Insurers “do not deserve to be vilified …
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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive …
More than 1000 protesters, including representatives of organized labor, marched through downtown Washington before stopping in front of the Ritz Carlton, site of the annual conference of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), …
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Health Care Protesters Face Off Against Insurance Lobbyists
(Jeremy Binckes contributed to this report.) Hundreds if not thousands of protesters and labor activists descended upon the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington today to try to make things a little more difficult for the health insurance …
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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Thousands Tell Big Insurance: Blocking Health …
Workers repeatedly expressed how they struggle to afford health insurance, an ever-growing expense that is eating away at their ability to pay a mortgage or send children to college. Here’s George Estright, a member of AFSCME Local 2162 …
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Few Californians benefiting from rescission settlements
In settlements with the state Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance, California’s largest health insurance companies agreed to …
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Union, Other Healthcare Bill Supporters ‘Arrest’ Health Insurance Leaders
The “warrants,” delivered to police during a demonstration outside an insurance industry meeting at a Washington hotel, were an attempt to dramatize …
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Health insurance across state lines — all sunshine and rainbows?
Call me cynical, but I just don’t believe it when conservatives tell me there would be no downside to allowing people to buy insurance across state lines. …
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Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension
The sweeping bill also would prevent doctors from absorbing a crippling cut in Medicare payments and extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed …
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Obama Takes Aim At Health Insurance Companies
He went after Republicans for their unified opposition, and attacked big insurance companies. This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. …
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