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President Obama appointed a cyber-security adviser yesterday but there’s still no one in the White House whose job it is to think…
Dec 22, 2009Last Friday Google's Christine Chen, posted an article about the Internet giant's approach to privacy, complete with a set of 20 slides,…
Dec 22, 2009LOS ANGELES, CA -- A Superior Court judge has approved a $750,000 settlement between Nextel Communications Inc. and customers, putting an end…
Dec 22, 2009Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman called in his New York Times column today for revising the rules on the filibuster. His…
Dec 18, 2009Without a 'public option' to compete with private insurers, the government would instead police the industry. But do regulators have enough authority…
Dec 18, 2009The healthcare insurer says the move comes after 'a lot of feedback' from customers concerned that the company was taking away a…
Dec 17, 2009Washington, D.C. -- A briefly considered “Medicare buy-in” proposal for 55- to 64-year-olds was apparently killed in the Senate this week by…
Dec 17, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A provision in both House and Senate healthcare legislation that would allow insurers to sell healthcare interstate is coming…
Dec 17, 2009Washington D.C. -- Key members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent a warning to Senate and House leaders that the…
Dec 17, 2009The Senate health-care bill could enable insurers to avoid some of the strongest consumer protections and benefit requirements adopted by state governments,…
Dec 17, 2009Campaign for Consumer Rights Warns Soldiers, Seniors and other Californians Would Be Penalized For Having a Lapse in Insurance Coverage, Even If…
Dec 16, 2009A colleague just received a mass email action from California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton reiterating my call days ago on the…
Dec 16, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The failure of the U.S. Senate to allow importation of prescription drugs to cut costs, much less the more…
Dec 16, 2009Consumer Watchdog Calls For Preserving State Authority, Ban on Annual Benefit Limits, & Effective Rate Regulation WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Consumer Watchdog…
Dec 15, 2009Imagine the surprise of the nation's biggest banking executives when the President revealed that their lobbyists in Washington (the ones the commercial…
Dec 15, 2009If the White House really wants historic health care reform and climate change legislation, there is one good alternative left. Change the…
Dec 15, 2009Consumers won a big victory over the banks and Wall Street last week when the House passed financial reform legislation, but it…
Dec 15, 2009When Sen. Joe Lieberman said last week that he might favor a health reform bill that traded away a "public option" for…
Dec 14, 2009