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Here's the latest from the Associated Press about a new California Supreme Court case allowing a false advertising case against the tobacco…
May 18, 2009The Senate's version of health care reform is becoming a "cave-in" to the medical and insurance industries, writes Robert Reich in ...
May 18, 2009This conjunction of abundant supply and low demand should translate into cheap prices. But that isn't the case right now. “The fact…
May 18, 2009A far-reaching ruling is expected in a case that could apply limits in 2004's Proposition 64 to ads for cigarettes. San Francisco,…
May 18, 2009Commissioners Solicited Sponsorships; Ethical Questions Raised Public Utilities Commissioner Gary Hanson solicited money for an energy conference from many of the Midwest…
May 17, 2009Insurance companies, including American International Group (AIG), spent nearly $36 million in recent years on political contributions to members of Congress, according…
May 16, 2009In-your-face watchdog gets advice from Microsoft 'people,' interest from Verizon SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Google Inc. has attracted a number of critics…
May 15, 2009This week, The Economist zoomed in on an issue that the press has overlooked of late: the details of where the money…
May 15, 2009ED SCHULTZ, HOST: I'm Ed Schultz. Welcome back to THE ED SHOW. Now, remember on Monday when the bigwigs from the insurance…
May 15, 2009Health insurers won't even put a fake number on their fake committment to reducing costs. It's all in today's New York Times...
May 15, 2009I joined a group of reporters yesterday who'd spent hours waiting outside the Senate Finance Committee hearing room for the private meeting…
May 15, 2009State Farm had to be prodded into reducing premiums as much as it did, said Douglas Heller, executive director of Consumer Watchdog,…
May 15, 2009"The federal government should oversee insurance," U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) said yesterday as he convened another House hearing on how to…
May 15, 2009Doug Heller, the executive director of Consumer Watchdog, said State Farm proposed last year to lower auto insurance rates by 3.2 percent…
May 15, 2009Rescission Victims Still Lack Coverage, Payments Despite Legal Settlements Advocates who applauded California's effort to reinstate patients said not enough was…
May 14, 2009No prying public eyes. No media. No Congressional Record. That's the reality of today's "closed" Senate Finance Committee hearing. The secret meeting…
May 14, 2009Washington D.C. -- The U.S. Senate Finance Committee, in closed-door health care discussions today, must answer ten questions about how its plan…
May 14, 2009Auto, home, business and life insurance companies contributed $35,743,017 million to members of Congress during the last two election cycles, according to…
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