The health insurance industry is using Facebook for the equivalent of buying votes for cash at the polling booth. Business Insider tells…
Dec 11, 2009What does Republican Party chair Michael Steele have to say about health reform? "Delay, stall, slow down and ultimately stop [the...
Dec 11, 2009Quote of the day, regarding an impending deal to let people from 55 to 64 years old join Medicare at their own…
Dec 9, 2009The end game of the health reform bill in the Senate, with furious bargaining inside the Democratic Party, looks a lot like…
Dec 8, 2009The Senate took up the right to abortion in the health reform debate today, with a proposal by Sen. Ben Nelson of…
Dec 8, 2009The sky is falling, said Chicken Little, and so say the health reform critics in the Senate. They are fearmongering relentlessly to…
Dec 4, 2009I about fell over today when Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana declared himself concerned about 'threats' to women's breast care under the…
Dec 2, 2009I was about to fall asleep listening to opening statements today in the Senate debate on health reform--until Sen. John McCain of…
Nov 30, 2009Ok, we already know that United HealthCare, Anthem/Wellpont and other insurance conglomerates are using your health insurance premiums to "help" their employees…
Nov 25, 2009Health insurance conglomerate Anthem Wellpoint recently tried to pawn off in Congress an internal analysis "proving" that health reform would raise health…
Nov 19, 2009I don't think you'll be shocked by this news, but drug companies are jacking up their prices in advance of new laws…
Nov 16, 2009As the old saying goes, you can fool some of the people all of the time. That appears to be the target…
Nov 11, 2009The news that the New York offices of Citigroup got 1,200 doses of H1Ni flu vaccine, and Goldman Sachs got about 200,…
Nov 6, 2009A final batch of amendments to the big House of Representatives health reform bill pokes a few sharp sticks at insurance companies.…
Nov 4, 2009Only the vastly under-seen cartoonist Tom Tomorrow could mash up the public option, Joe Lieberman and Harry Reid, and make a tragicomedy…
Nov 3, 2009The following Op-Ed commentary by Judy Dugan was published in The Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, November 3, 2009: If the reforms…
Nov 3, 2009Wanna lower your health insurance premiums? Move to the suburbs. According to data compiled by Chicago-based Norvax Inc., the further you live…
Nov 2, 2009The biggest U.S. health insurance conglomerate, UnitedHealth Group, was basking today in a 13% profit increase, to more than $1 billion, even…
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