Jerry Flanagan

PacifiCare “Rescission” Settlement Gives Lip Service to Patient Losses But Stacks Legal Deck in Favor of Insurers

Santa Monica, CA -- A settlement announced today by California health regulators acknowledged that patients should be able to recover unpaid medical…

Consumer Watchdog Raises Concern that Health Policy Cancellation Rules Have Been Derailed in Deal With Kaiser

Sees Improvement But is Concerned About Loss of Legal Remedies Santa Monica, CA -- A settlement with Kaiser Permanente over more 1,000…

Consumer Watchdog Warns HMO Regulator Not to Side With Insurers Over Illegal Coverage Cancellations

Big 5 Health Insurers Named In Cancellation Lawsuits Contributed $804,600 to Governor Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today said that according…

Consumer Watchdog Calls on Governor & Regulator to Immediately Reinstate All Wrongfully Cancelled Patients, Move Forward on Delayed Rules

Santa Monica, CA -- In the wake of last week's announcement by Governor Schwarzenegger and state regulators that health insurers would be…

Consumer Watchdog Praises HMO Regulator’s Promise to Reinstate Health Coverage for Wrongfully Cancelled Patients

Cautions That All Health Costs During Gap Must be Covered Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today praised a California state regulator’s…

Consumer Watchdog Applauds L.A. City Attorney’s Efforts to Reinstate Cancelled Blue Cross Patients

Urges State HMO Regulator To Do Same Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today joined L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo in announcing…

Consumer Watchdog Gives HMO Regulator 10 Days to Order Reinstatement of Patients Whose Policies Have Been Illegally Cancelled

Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog petitioned the state Department of Managed Health Care to announce within 10 days its plans regarding…

Consumer Watchdog Warns of New Medical Privacy Dangers in Wake of Breach of Farrah Fawcett and Maria Shriver Records at UCLA

Since 2006 Senator Calderon, Sponsor of Bill Allowing Invasions of Medical Privacy, Received $21,690 from Drug Companies and Pharmacies Santa Monica,CA -- Breaches of…

Consumer Advocates Call for Governor To Make Good on His Promise to Protect Patients From Illegal Cancellations of Health Insurance

Health Care Regulators Accused in Hearing of "Glacial Pace" In Stopping Post-Claim Rescissions, Failing to Restore Coverage to Victims   California’s Department…

“People won’t sign up voluntarily”

Senator Calderon's response in the Whittier Daily News to our request.

Consumer Advocate Speaks Out Against Bill Allowing Invasions of Medical Privacy

Author Received $21,000 from Bill Benefactors SACRAMENTO, CA -- A consumer advocate will speak out against proposed legislation that would create a…

Gov. Schwarzenegger Must Follow Through on Call to Ban Blue Cross From Using Doctors as Double-Agents to Dump Sick Patients

NEWS RELEASE Santa Monica, CA -- The...

Consumer Group Finds Use of Outdated Data and Other Major Flaws In Economist’s Defense of Mandatory Purchase of Private Health Insurance

NEWS RELEASE Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Santa Monica, CA -- A consumer group today released a critique of a report by MIT…

PacifiCare Violations and $1.33 Billion Fine is Result of 2005 Merger with UnitedHealth Inc; Cautionary Tale for Future Mergers

Cautionary Tale for Future Mergers

Núñez Health Reform Bill Establishes Mandatory Purchase Without Linking To Subsidies For Middle Class and Poor

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Núñez/Perata Health Plan

Draft Rules Won’t Stop Insurers’ Illegal Cancellations of Health Policies;

Rules Compound Problems With Governor's Mandatory Health Insurance Plan

California’s HMO “Report Card” Fails In Meaningful Evaluation of Health Care Quality and Ignores Affordability