Among the biggest proponents of a Medicare-style universal health care plan is the California Nurses Association. Since no one else has wrapped…
Jan 14, 2009In the race to influence health care reform, the insurance industry and major corporations just made a big score in the toy…
Jan 14, 2009California is a bellwether for the nation, for good and ill. Today it's for ill, in the most literal way. The state's…
Dec 23, 2008There's nothing insurance companies fear more than having to compete with a low-overhead public and nonprofit health care option--say, Medicare. They're in…
Dec 19, 2008Do you wonder what the insurance giant AIG is doing with its $150 billion-with-a-b in taxpayer bailout money? Well, this is what…
Nov 20, 2008It wasn't a big shock to me when AARP announced that it would be "investigating" deceptively marketed health insurance carrying the AARP…
Nov 20, 2008Politics has long been the playground of millionaires. This election, however, the billionaires have taken over the table. According to Judy Dugan,…
Nov 3, 2008Taxpayers can breathe a sigh of relief, after that look of puzzlement, over the budget deal that state lawmakers apparently struck with…
Sep 18, 2008This warning -- "Death of the Corporation Tax” is part of the Budget Deal -- kicks off a press release I just…
Sep 15, 2008
How Oil Companies Shorted the Market and Made It Happen Diesel fuel is the engine of American commerce and public life. Oil…
Jun 10, 2008Consumer Watchdog has protested strings-attached grants from Big Oil to universities, but the oil companies are just following the path of Big…
May 9, 2008When the federal government passes a law but has no cops to enforce it, the crooks hold a "get out of jail…
May 9, 2008Buoyed by booming energy prices and output, Westwood-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. said Thursday that first-quarter profit leaped 53% to an all-time high.…
Apr 25, 2008It's amazing how fast Gov. Schwarzenegger reacts when it's his wife, Maria Shriver, whose medical records are being snooped. "This kind of…
Apr 8, 2008A pair of adjacent stories on health care costs in today's New York Times illustrate the big potholes in privatizing health reform.…
Apr 7, 2008No one knows more about the state of medical care in America than the people delivering it. That's what gives extra punch…
Apr 3, 2008Sen. Hillary Clinton fell into the "premium cap" trap in a New York Times interview published today, saying that, in her mandatory…
Mar 28, 2008Like other top hospitals in LA, UCLA Medical Center has heavy physical security to keep the papparazi and other riff-raff away from…
Mar 17, 2008