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Everyone has a take on what will happen next on health reform. Consumer Watchdog, of course, is digging out the loopholes and…
Mar 24, 2010SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Health insurance plans in California would have to submit their rates for prior approval under legislation advanced by the…
Mar 24, 2010Google is crowing about a decision from the European Court of Justice Tuesday that says it has the legal right to continue…
Mar 24, 2010Last night, in a surreal process that from gavel to gavel took less than 25 minutes, the Senate Banking committee approved Chairman…
Mar 23, 2010Jones/Feuer Legislation Addresses Blue Cross 39% Rate Increase, Would Require Insurers to Get "Prior Approval” Sacramento, CA – A crucially needed bill…
Mar 23, 2010Google stopped self-censoring its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, on Monday and redirected that site's visitors to Google.com.hk, its site based in Hong…
Mar 23, 2010For someone who has been talking for two decades about the need for universal health care, few words come to me easily…
Mar 22, 2010Google's decision to stop filtering search results hailed as triumph for internet freedom and a boost to the people for China Consumer…
Mar 22, 2010Check out this hilarious and too-truthful Huffington Post from Heather Booth, director of Americans for Financial Reform, on this week's Capitol Hill…
Mar 19, 2010I’m not taking an axe to my computer or anything, but every day I am more and more disturbed by the infinite…
Mar 19, 2010Santa Monica, CA – In a letter to California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, Consumer Watchdog said internal communications of Anthem Blue Cross…
Mar 19, 2010The question of where to house a proposed new consumer protection agency has garnered at least as much attention as whether there…
Mar 19, 2010Consumer Watchdog also asks California insurance chief Steve Poizner for public hearings on the healthcare firm's rate hike plan. Consumer Watchdog filed…
Mar 19, 2010Thousands of pages of documents were unsealed in U.S. Court in New York Thursday in the $1 billion copyright infringement suit filed…
Mar 19, 2010Internet giant Google appears to be concerned that its proposed $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob is...
Mar 18, 2010The billionaire GOP candidate has vast holdings spread across hedge funds and venture capital groups. The investments may bind her in long-term…
Mar 18, 2010Lawmakers -- again -- are questioning the operations and culture of the state's stem cell program, which was created by voters nearly…
Mar 18, 2010“Anyone who has used car sharing (or for that matter rental cars) as their means of transportation would almost certainly not be…
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