Consumer Watchdog’s President and Chairman of the Board is an award-winning and nationally recognized consumer advocate. Capitol Weekly, naming Jamie to its “Top 100” list of unelected movers and shakers in California politics, wrote, “Court has made a career of battling all comers in the interest of the public, and his take-no-prisoners approach has earned him plenty of enemies.” Jamie’s latest book is The Progressive’s Guide To Raising Hell: How To Win Grassroots Campaigns, Pass Ballot Box Laws And Get The Change You Voted For (Chelsea Green, 2010).
“Americans angry about the state of their government might find in Court’s persuasive manifesto a cause for action,” Publishers Weekly writes. “With great accessibility and a fired-up attitude, Court brings his lessons in empowerment to the people.” He is also the author of Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Freedom And What You Can Do About It (Tarcher Putnam, 2003) and co-author of Making A Killing: HMOs and the Threat To Your Health (Common Courage Press, 1999). Jamie has led dozens of major corporate and political campaigns to reform insurers, banks, technology companies, oil companies, utilities and political practices. He helped to pioneer the HMO patients’ rights movement in the United States, sponsoring successful laws in California and aiding them elsewhere, and was an early champion of many of the most important consumer protections in the federal Affordable Care Act years before they were enacted. In recent years, he has led the campaign to hold California oil refiners accountable for price gouging at the pump which resulted in the toughest oil refinery regulation in America.
A frequent media commentator and op-ed contributor, Jamie is a high-profile and stalwart defender of consumers’ rights. The Los Angeles Times calls him “a tireless consumer advocate.” The Wall Street Journal writes, “He’s notorious for his dramatic, sharp-tongued attacks on the health- and auto-insurance industries, and on any politician who takes their campaign cash.” His public interest career began as an advocate for the homeless and as a community organizer. Jamie’s Alma mater is Pomona College, where he graduated with a BA in History in 1989.
Modern Healthcare Magazine fter calling a year ago for the dismissal of Richard Huber, chief executive officer of Aetna U.S. Healthcare, the…
Mar 6, 2000Los Angeles Times There aren't many people who understand the flaws of HMO medicine better than Jamie Court, a tireless consumer activist…
Feb 28, 2000Sacramento Bee Consumer activist Jamie Court's view of managed care companies isn't ambiguous. He is, after all, the author of "Making a…
Feb 27, 2000Consumer Group Called For Resignation One Year Ago, Retracted Last Night One day after the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR)…
Feb 25, 2000Huber Called Secret Weapon For HMO Patients' Rights Movement The Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) distributed a letter to Aetna…
Feb 24, 2000Opinon Editorial by Jamie CourtSan Diego Union-Tribune This month, the chief lobbyist for the HMO industry pronounced managed-care reform dead in Congress…
Jan 25, 2000The San Diego Union-Tribune Jamie Court, that constant thorn-in-the-side of health maintenance organizations, has now adopted the World Wide Web as a…
Dec 22, 1999American Health Line "At least the industry now believes it has something to prove to the public rather than simply being interested…
Nov 29, 1999Modern Healthcare If HMOs weren't beleaguered enough by patient reforms being pushed through Congress, they should be little cheered that one of…
Nov 29, 1999American Health Line An op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times applauds the "extraordinary" move by UnitedHealth Group allowing doctors to make "medical…
Nov 12, 1999Opinion Editorial by Jamie Court and Frank SmithLos Angeles Times This week's extraordinary announcement by the UnitedHealth Group that it will let…
Nov 11, 1999If a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is your family’s medical provider, just hope you never face a medical crisis. This compelling book…
Nov 10, 1999Opinion Editorial by Jamie CourtChristian Science Monitor California pioneered health maintenance organization medicine, and now it is pioneering its reform. Earlier this…
Oct 13, 1999Opinion Editorial by Jamie CourtLos Angeles Times Patients' rights legislation passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives and other bills…
Oct 12, 1999Associated Press A wide-ranging new package of health care laws that grants Californians the right to sue HMOs for damages has raised…
Sep 28, 1999Opinion Editorial by Jamie CourtUSA TODAY The Justice Department's approval last week of the Aetna-Prudential merger shows that Justice is indeed blind.…
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