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Legislative hearing results in testy exchange with lawmakers Consumers also showed up to voice their displeasure. Laurel Kaufer, a self-employed single mother…
Feb 24, 2010Group Urges House Subcommittee to Expand Hearings, Investigate Possible Insurer 'Shell Games' in Justifying Massive Premium Increases
Feb 24, 2010California Attorney General Jerry Brown has issued his final ballot label for Proposition 17, the Mercury Insurance-financed ballot measure to surcharge those…
Feb 24, 2010Citing Public Mistrust, Group Calls For Release of All Documents Obtained in Commissioner’s Investigation of 39% Premium Increases Sacramento, CA —…
Feb 23, 2010Anthem Blue Cross refused to pay for one of its California members to get a liver transplant at an Indiana University hospital…
Feb 23, 2010Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers grilled Anthem Blue Cross executives on Tuesday about their plan to boost individual insurance premiums by…
Feb 23, 2010“Wall Street was bailed out and benefited from taxpayer largesse, and now K Street is benefiting from it,” said Carmen Balber, head…
Feb 23, 2010Don't states already regulate health insurance? States do regulate insurance, but the outcome is uneven and not always effective. In many states,…
Feb 23, 2010As pressure builds toward Thursday's "bipartisan" presidential summit on health care reform, some Capitol Hill staffers have reported receiving calls from the…
Feb 23, 2010Washington, D.C. -- The consumer group that pioneered the most successful insurance premium regulation law in the nation, California's Proposition 103, today…
Feb 22, 2010Even as the health insurance giant turns over hundreds of millions in profits to its parent company, it defends plans to raise…
Feb 22, 2010National Health Care Reformers Should Pay Attention to Lawsuit Alleging That Nation's Largest Insurer Denies Liver Transplants Automatically Los Angeles, CA…
Feb 22, 2010The planned spike in health insurance rates by Anthem Blue Cross in California is just the tip of a Titanic-size iceberg of…
Feb 21, 2010WEST SACRAMENTO – State law says legislators legally reside wherever they're registered to vote, which in Van Tran's case is 418 miles…
Feb 20, 2010WASHINGTON, D.C. — Responding to growing outrage over plans by Anthem Blue Cross to dramatically raise health insurance rates for hundreds of…
Feb 19, 2010NEW YORK, NY -- Google confronted a barrage of criticism from opponents of its proposed digital book settlement Thursday as the Internet…
Feb 19, 2010Literature For Prop. 17 Omits Mercury’s Millions Officially, the proposition is the handiwork of Californians for Fair Auto Insurance Rates or Cal-FAIR,…
Feb 19, 2010U.S. Judge Denny Chin began Thursday's marathon Fairness Hearing in the Google Books case by ending the suspense. "I'm not going to…
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