Healthcare

Generic drug makers to offer coupons

September 16, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Mateo County Times</p> <p>Jamie Court of the advocacy group Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights, which has been critical of insurance company profits and spiraling health care costs, said the program doesn't get to the heart of the problem.</p>

Health Plans Begin Drive for Generic Drugs;

September 15, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Four insurers serving 15 million Californians seek to convert their members from costlier brand-name medicines.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Jamie Court, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which has been a strong critic of health maintenance organizations, praised the campaign as a step in the right direction.</p>

CALIFORNIA: HEALTH PLANS TO OFFER COUPONS FOR GENERIC RX

September 15, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">American Health Line</p> <p>Jamie Court, executive director of the Santa Monica, Calif.-based consumer advocacy group Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, added, "I think it's an interesting program because it is a way of trying to combat the influence of pharmaceutical ma</p>

West Zone: California Orders MedMal Cuts

September 8, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Insurance Chronicle</p> <p>The ruling was in response to the first-ever consumer group challenge to a medical malpractice insurance rate hike request, brought by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR), a California nonprofit organization.</p>

Rolling back; Calif. limits malpractice insurer’s rate hike

September 8, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Modern Healthcare</p> <p>Heller called the rollback a tribute to Proposition 103, a 15-year-old initiative that requires insurance companies to justify any premium increases with the state insurance commissioner while providing consumers with the right to challenge rate increases</p>

NO CURE: Prop. 12 is a misdiagnosis for Texas Constitution

September 7, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Houston Chronicle</p> <p>A $250,000 cap was instituted in California in 1975. However, malpractice rates continued to rise. They went up 450 percent over the next 13 years, according to the Los Angeles-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.</p>

Everybody at risk – Uninsured in W.Va.

September 7, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Government gets big drug discounts you can't get: 50 to 4,000% off - VA prices make Canada look expensive</h3><p class="source">Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)</p> <p>"Veterans deserve low prices, but surely, the government can do a better job of regulating the price for everybody else. All consumers deserve lower prices.", said Jerry Flanagan of The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.</p>

Care worker charged with sexual battery on two hospital patients;

September 6, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Police say others may have been attacked while being prepared for surgery.</h3><p class="source">The Sacramento Bee</p> <p>"People don't always report it or they don't know they're victimized. It's far more common with doctors than hospital workers, and it doesn't occur in hospitals as much as in examination rooms," said Court, author of the book, "Making a Killing."</p>

Garamendi Cuts Malpractice Insurance Hike;

September 4, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<h3>The rate increase will be 9.9%. The insurer had requested 15.6%.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The consumer group that caused the hearings by appealing the rate increase, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said the reduction in the rate increase means a $16 million overall savings for physicians in 2003</p>

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