Mark Reback
Articles by Mark Reback
B.S. Alert: Health Insurance Robber Barons Spend $56 Million vs. Prop 45’s Rate Regulation in California Without a Single Public Comment
Four health insurance companies are spending $56 million to defeat California Proposition 45, a ballot measure to be decided Tuesday, which I…
Oct 30, 2014
California’s Proposition 45 Would Offer Public a Say on Health Insurance Rates
Yes on Proposition 45 supporters rallied this month outside Blue Shield of California in El Segundo. The ballot measure would require health…
Oct 30, 2014Capitol Journal: A Voter Guide To California’s Boring But Important Ballot Propositions
Six state propositions are on the ballot and none are sexy. All are snoozers. But each is significant. Some, in fact, are…
Oct 30, 2014Nancy Pelosi and Consumer Watchdog Duke It Out Over Prop. 45
Consumer Watchdog, the non-profit group behind Proposition 45, is firing back at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi over her opposition to the…
Oct 30, 2014No Bull: Don’t Be Fooled By Insurance Companies – Vote Yes on Propositions 45 and 46
Bias alert! I am proud to say that for 25 years I’ve been a board member of Consumer Watchdog, the nonprofit formerly…
Oct 30, 2014U.S. Supreme Court Action Being Sought in Major Human Embryonic Stem Cell Patent Case
The California-based challenge to WARF’s patent on human embryonic stem cells is headed for the United States Supreme Court. The nation’s…
Oct 30, 2014Stem Cell Patent To Reach Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will be asked to intervene over a controversial embryonic stem cell patent, opponents of the patent said Thursday.…
Oct 30, 2014Snail Mail Surveillance: Rules Are Weak – and Routinely Broken
An internal investigation revealed that the U.S. Postal Service has been doing some unwarranted mail tampering of its own. "The fact that…
Oct 30, 2014KPIX TV-5 CBS San Francisco: Prop 45 Supporters Dump Manure at Health Insurance CEOs Gala
A group of price-gouged policyholders, nurses and consumer advocates descended on the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on Monday night with a…
Oct 30, 2014Taking a Look at Proposition 45
With the election less than a week away, we've decided to take a look at some of the more controversial issues on…
Oct 29, 2014YES on Prop 45: Watch this Doctor SMASH Big Insurance’s $55 MILLION propaganda campaign
YES on Prop 45: Watch this Doctor SMASH Big Insurance's $55 MILLION propaganda campaign.
Oct 29, 2014KABC 790 AM – The Doug McIntyre Show: Harvey Rosenfield “Yes On 45”
Consumer Watchdog Founder Harvey Rosenfield talks to McIntyre In The Morning about his support for California Proposition 45 which gives the California…
Oct 29, 2014Hoover Poll Shows Support for Health Insurance Rate Regulation
Proposition 45, a ballot measure that would regulate health insurance rates, is ahead, according to a new Internet poll by the Hoover…
Oct 28, 2014In California, Consumer Watchdog’s Prop 45 Challenges Obamacare — From the Left
Blue Shield of California, one of the state's four major health insurers, has a sales office on the 20th floor of the…
Oct 28, 2014Race for Obscure CA Post and Ballot Initiative Could Derail Obamacare There
Latino voters in California find themselves in the middle of one of the most important - in terms of immediate, real-world consequences…
Oct 28, 2014Timm Herdt: Does This Insurance Market Work?
Of the 1.4 million Californians who purchased health insurance this year through the Covered California purchasing exchange, 94 percent bought their plans…
Oct 28, 2014Op-Ed: What Prop. 46 Would Fix
What will and won't happen if medical malpractice 'pain and suffering' awards are indexed for inflation
Oct 28, 2014