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The Washington Post today has an eye-opening story today on how a family ended up in crushing debt at an "in-network" hospital…
Jan 19, 2010Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said little about health care, though the one fragment that is quoted leaves no doubt about where…
Jan 18, 2010Google's ties to the Obama administration are perhaps unrivaled in corporate America, but the Internet giant's announcement this week that it's considering…
Jan 16, 2010A Silicon Valley Internet security firm on Thursday described for the first time how hackers from China were able to crack Google's…
Jan 15, 2010Should someone in Idaho or Nevada have significantly different health care coverage from someone in Massachusetts? That, essentially, is one of the…
Jan 14, 2010Santa Monica, CA -- Google acted correctly in ending self-censorship of its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, but the cyber attacks that prompted…
Jan 13, 2010San Francisco, CA -- In a surprise announcement late Tuesday, Google Inc. said it may turn its back on the huge Chinese…
Jan 13, 2010The Internet firm says it will stop the scorned practice of censoring users' search results. Public interest groups lauded Google's move to…
Jan 13, 2010Under competing pressures from various lobbyists and voters more concerned about unemployment and the economy, Democrats scramble to carve out a compromise…
Jan 13, 2010California has been a leader in patients rights, largely in response to abuses by HMOs that, for instance, tried to eject new…
Jan 12, 2010Washington, D.C. -- In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) today, Consumer Watchdog called for strengthened oversight of the…
Jan 12, 2010Google last week asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to buy and sell electric power like...
Jan 11, 2010WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some advocates and officials across the political spectrum said they believe federal health care reform could undermine states' rights…
Jan 11, 2010"Our work now is to make this bill, in these final throes, as good as possible," said Jerry Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog,…
Jan 11, 2010LOS ANGELES, CA -- A California appeals court upheld changes to state insurance regulations that clarified that insurers must pay the cost…
Jan 8, 2010KCRA 3 Gets Letter In Response To Public Records Request SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- When the H1N1 flu pandemic began, there was a…
Jan 7, 2010Google is notorious for maintaining a clutter-free, minimalist home page. It famously resisted adding a "privacy" link because adding the word would…
Jan 7, 2010Google acted again Tuesday to ensure that will be a dominant player in the increasingly important mobile market. It clearly wants to…
Jan 6, 2010