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“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…
Feb 19, 2010Ten years ago, scientists discovered stem cells in the dental pulp of human teeth. Despite the fact that there are still no…
Feb 18, 2010In press releases this morning outlining their testimony, critics of the plan reiterated their opposition. “In essence Google’s latest arguments seem to…
Feb 18, 2010NEW YORK, NY — Attorneys for Consumer Watchdog will appear in a federal court today to urge Judge Deny Chinn to reject…
Feb 18, 2010Search giant Google is facing its opponents in a New York court over long-delayed plans to create the world's largest online library.…
Feb 18, 2010Reports about consumer protection in the Senate Banking committee's Wall Street reform bill are ever-shifting. It's time for Committee Chairman Chris Dodd…
Feb 17, 2010A leading privacy group has urged US regulators to investigate Google's new social networking service Buzz, one week after its launch. The…
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