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SACRAMENTO, CA -- The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has agreed to a fine and to offer health care coverage to 1,092 individual…
May 16, 2008The action comes after Kaiser Permanente and Health Net reach an agreement with a state agency. Two of the state's largest health…
May 16, 2008The state Department of Managed Health Care and Kaiser Permanente announced an agreement Thursday to immediately reinstate health insurance to 1,092 Kaiser…
May 16, 2008State PUC Grants Oil Giant’s Water Company 89.7 Percent Rate Increase; Chevron Wanted 138 Percent Santa Monica, CA -- A decision today …
May 15, 2008Sees Improvement But is Concerned About Loss of Legal Remedies Santa Monica, CA -- A settlement with Kaiser Permanente over more 1,000…
May 15, 2008An attempt sponsored by Verizon to cut into the state Public Utilities Commission's power over telephone-company mergers is drawing fire from unlikely…
May 15, 2008Big 5 Health Insurers Named In Cancellation Lawsuits Contributed $804,600 to Governor Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today said that according…
May 14, 2008State regulators are scheduled to announce Thursday "an agreement with a major California health plan to reinstate health coverage immediately to enrollees…
May 14, 2008While drivers are facing sticker shock at the pump these days, here is a bigger shock: high prices are putting a strain…
May 14, 2008The stem cell agency's Biotech Loan Task Force approved a draft loan policy at its meeting last week and sent it on…
May 13, 2008Consumer Advocates Call On Office of Administrative Law To Resist Politics, Protect Public Santa Monica, CA – The Schwarzenegger administration should…
May 13, 2008White House Scorns Action, Congress in Gridlock as Soaring Prices Push Inflation, Motorists Cry ‘Uncle’ Santa Monica, CA -- An 11-cent rise…
May 12, 2008Santa Monica, CA -- An audit of the state stem cell agency by California’s Controller ignores fundamental flaws in Proposition 71 that…
May 12, 2008State Controller John Chiang said an audit of the state's stem cell grant program found its conflict-of-interest policies, grant administration, administrative expenses…
May 12, 2008BOUNTIFUL, UT -- During the first week in May, Doug Olson sold fuel at a loss. The co-owner of Slim Olson's gas…
May 11, 2008State universities and community colleges got an invitation last week to join California's stem cell research program. A committee overseeing the $3…
May 10, 2008Consumer Watchdog has protested strings-attached grants from Big Oil to universities, but the oil companies are just following the path of Big…
May 9, 2008When the federal government passes a law but has no cops to enforce it, the crooks hold a "get out of jail…
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