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Associated Press "Californians deserve the right to vote to protect their privacy if the Legislature cannot deliver a comparable safeguard," Jerry Flanagan,…
Aug 14, 2003CBS Evening News (6:30 PM ET) - CBS-TV Mr. HARVEY ROSENFIELD (Consumer Rights Advocate): The things that made California the Golden State…
Aug 12, 2003Consumer Groups: Reform Plan Must Include Cost Controls As gubernatorial recall candidates refine their positions on health care reform, the state legislature…
Aug 11, 2003Insurance Chronicle The measure, SB 841, which could also lead to higher premiums for drivers who let their coverage lapse for more…
Aug 11, 2003Associated Press Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a Santa Monica-based consumer advocacy group, said Garamendi is…
Aug 8, 2003NBC-TV Today Show Jamie Court (FTCR): For health care, it's very important that we stand for this proposition that human life is…
Aug 7, 2003NBC-TV Today Show Jamie Court (FTCR): For health care, it's very important that we stand for this proposition that human life is…
Aug 7, 2003Oshkosh Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI) "While we're frustrated with junk mail, with junk faxes, we're paying for the paper, we're paying for toner.…
Aug 7, 2003The San Francisco Chronicle Davis' signing has enraged consumer activist Harvey Rosenfield, the author of Proposition 103, who has said he will…
Aug 6, 2003Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA) Most overdone surgeries, Jamie Court of FTCR said, are "high-ticket items with the biggest price tags for the…
Aug 5, 2003Insurance companies enlist disease-management firms to assist chronically ill and trim costs, but some docs are skepticalThe Tennessean Jerry Flanagan of FTCR,…
Aug 5, 2003Sacramento Bee "Governor Davis has sold out California voters on behalf of Mercury Insurance and other insurance companies that have been among…
Aug 5, 2003Added protections for transgender residents, auto insurance measure are among new laws.The Los Angeles Times Harvey Rosenfield, author of Prop 103, argued…
Aug 5, 2003Modern Healthcare "The report undermines the argument that there is any silver-bullet solution in tort reforms and caps on damages,"' said Doug…
Aug 4, 2003Associated Press Consumer activists were fuming Monday after Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill allowing discounts to drivers who maintain auto insurance…
Aug 4, 2003Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee) Doug Heller, senior consumer advocate for the California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said people get…
Aug 3, 2003With & Without In West Virginia: 'We wanted to be different'Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) "The system that depends on health insurance that…
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