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In-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…
May 14, 2009When Google meets with Congressional staffers, hoping to convince US lawmakers that it's nothing but good for the world, the web giant…
May 13, 2009After Google unveiled new features to its search results yesterday, one analyst is saying that the company’s leadership position has become virtually…
May 13, 2009Stand up, don't sit down, There's a health care crisis in this town! That was one of the many chants from the…
May 13, 2009It's hard not to read the new US Senate Finance Committee paper laying out policy options for health care reform as anything…
May 12, 2009What's up with our legal system? A bankruptcy judge just told the bankrupt Tribune Co. it could go ahead and pay $13…
May 12, 2009A Senate health care reform "policy options" document released last night gives us a good idea where national reform plans will go,…
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