Insurance
Health Care Industry Top Lobbyists In California
Health care firms spent more than $35 million on lobbying in California in 2011. Click here to listen to the audio of…
Mar 13, 2012Mark Reback
Articles by Mark Reback
Insurance
Coalition Opposes Health Insurance Rate Regulation Initiative
An impressive array of trade groups representing business owners, doctors, hospitals, health plans and health insurers launched a campaign Monday to oppose…
Mar 12, 2012
Healthcare
Medical Debt Burdens 20 Percent in U.S.
One-in-5 U.S. adults say they are burdened by medical debt and half of them are unable to pay the debt at all,…
Mar 12, 2012
Healthcare
Hospitals Targeted By Union Proposals
SACRAMENTO, CA -- As healthcare workers gathered outside California hospitals recently to collect signatures for two proposed ballot initiatives, they told voters…
Mar 10, 2012
Insurance
Three Medical Malpractice Insurers Roll Back Rates
Three top medical malpractice insurers in California have rolled back their rates, saving doctors, dentists and other providers nearly $19 million a…
Mar 8, 2012
Healthcare
Liz & Steve Parker, small business owners – Tulsa Rib Company – 
Orange, CA
Before my husband Steve started our restaurant 31 years ago, he worked as a dishwasher and in every other kind of food…
Mar 5, 2012
Privacy
Reding: Google Privacy Policy Is Illegal
Google should not have pushed through its privacy policy changes in the face of conflicts with European data protection laws, according to…
Mar 5, 2012
Insurance
Virginia Donohue & Mark Klaiman, small business owners – Pet Camp
My husband Mark and I had always wanted to be able to bring our dogs to work, and be in business for…
Mar 2, 2012
Insurance
Op-Ed: Time For Health Insurance Companies To Justify High Rates
If my family's small local business was a health insurance company, we could double prices during a deep recession while amassing a…
Mar 2, 2012
Insurance
Michelle Derviss – Novato, CA
As a landscape and garden designer, I’m self-employed in a job that is tremendously satisfying. I get to oversee everything from the…
Mar 1, 2012
Insurance
Janet Hildreth, small business owner – Tree Lovers Flooring
We’ve always offered health insurance in our small business, Tree Lovers Flooring, to provide for our employees as we would for ourselves.…
Mar 1, 2012
Privacy
Google Rolls Out New Privacy Policy Amid Howls
WASHINGTON, DC -- Google rolled out its new privacy policy Thursday allowing the firm to track users across various services to developed…
Mar 1, 2012
Insurance
GeoVera Insurance Settles with State
The California Department of Insurance has settled a noncompliance action against GeoVera Insurance Co. following an investigation that started after some customers…
Mar 1, 2012
Privacy
Google Privacy Policy Strikes Out With EU, Others
The firestorm over Google's new privacy policy, which is effective starting Thursday, likely won't end soon. The Web's leading search company drew…
Mar 1, 2012
Privacy
Google Enforces New Privacy Policy, Despite International Outcry About Its Implications
Defying strong opposition from many consumer groups around the globe, Google is imposing its new privacy policy on two billion users today…
Mar 1, 2012
Privacy
Google’s Privacy Rules Grow, But Do Protections?
Google’s privacy policy grew from 650 words a dozen years ago to more than 2,000 in the new version which goes into…
Mar 1, 2012
Privacy
Bono Mack Plans Privacy Hearing
WASHINGTON – As watchdog groups urge a slowdown in Google's new privacy policy, Rep. Mary Bono Mack's office announced Tuesday a hearing…
Feb 29, 2012
Insurance
Health Plan Hikes Reveal Bad Blood
A loud hissing contest on California's left political flank began weeks before the state's largest health insurance companies announced the other day…
Feb 27, 2012