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Associated Presss SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Health maintenance organization patients could not be forced to take their disputes to arbitration instead of court…
Mar 28, 2000San Francisco Chronicle The Legislature left some unfinished business last year when it passed a bill allowing patients to file a claim…
Mar 28, 2000AB 1751 Now Heads To Assembly Floor
Mar 28, 2000Insurers Made Donations to Quackenbush Foundations and Political Committees After Investigations Stopped The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights today requested, under…
Mar 27, 2000New Story & Picture Faxed Daily To Every Legislator The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights today launched an "HMO Arbitration Abuse…
Mar 27, 2000Finance: Funds came from insurers with business before commissioner. The actions are legal, but some decry themLos Angeles Times Insurance Commissioner Chuck…
Mar 26, 2000Firms pay $245,000 to state insurance chiefAssociated Press Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush collected tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from insurance…
Mar 26, 2000The little told story of the true balance of power in American politics is that even when big corporations lose legislatively they…
Mar 23, 2000USA Today Most patients assume that what they tell their doctor is confidential. But it might not be.
Mar 23, 2000Wall Street Journal California SACRAMENTO -- What could possibly have possessed Daniel Zingale to accept -- no, not merely accept but actively…
Mar 22, 2000The consistently high gasoline prices in the California have been blamed on price "spikes" caused by shortages of fuel due to California…
Mar 16, 2000San Francisco Chronicle The consistently high gasoline prices in the Bay Area have been blamed on price "spikes" caused by shortages of…
Mar 16, 2000Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- After the fiasco that was health-care reform died ignominiously in 1994, legislators still itched to prove they…
Mar 14, 2000In September 1999, California Governor Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 21 (Figueroa), sponsored by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consmer Rights, which…
Mar 7, 2000So much money is invested by politicians and vested business interests in the electoral process these days that it's becoming impossible to…
Mar 7, 2000Associated Press The experimental low-cost auto insurance program due to debut this summer in two counties is running into problems. Lawmakers and…
Mar 6, 2000Office of Administrative Law To Deliver Formal Rejection of Quackenbush Regulations Today
Mar 6, 2000San Diego Union Tribune As quickly as the offer from the parent company of Wellpoint Health Networks Inc. to Aetna Inc. was…
Mar 4, 2000