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Bite Back! Jamie Court talks about Keystone XL and the Koch Brothers

Bite Back! Consumer Watchdog's new weekly segment where our seasoned advocates talk about the great hypocrisies of the day. This week Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court takes on the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Koch Brothers influence. See more of our Bite Back videos here or on our official YouTube channel.

Mercury Insurance Cannot Pass On Costs of “Branding” Ads to Policyholders – Californians Win

A Sacramento judge has tentatively ruled that Mercury Insurance cannot pass on the costs of institutional advertising, like its golf tournament the Mercury Open, to policyholders. Auto and home insurance ratepayers will saving millions.

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CBS Evening News – Patients Outraged After Losing Doctors Under Obamacare

Jerry Flanagan, lead attorney for the Consumer Watchdog group in California, says hundreds of thousands of people lost their doctors when insurers sold narrow networks without notice.

"Consumers here were told that networks are going to be the same as they were before Obamacare ... and those are flat out lies," Flanagan said.

Kevin McCarthy of Thousand Oaks, California, was surprised last spring, when he learned his family doctor of 14 years could not accept the Blue Shield insurance he'd purchased under Obamacare.

CNBC-TV – John Simpson Discusses Net Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication

KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles: Prop 45 Debate and the Need for Health Insurance Rate Regulation

Jamie Court debates the need for Prop 45 Health Insurance rate regulation on KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles.

KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles – Blue Shield and Cigna Bait and Switch

Consumer advocates filed two separate lawsuits against Cigna and Blue Shield of California for misrepresenting their physician and hospital networks in order to boost sales during the Affordable Care Act’s ‘open enrollment period’ that ended on March 31.

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