Plan to Privatize Medicare Is Payback to HMOs President Bush's call to privatize Medicare by driving seniors to low-quality HMOs, in order to receive a prescription drug benefit, will undermine access to basic health care…
AMA President-Elect Misrepresented Damages Received by Child Palmisano claimed, on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, that "$42 million was given to that child." In truth, "that child," Steven Olsen, eventually received less than $2 million…
Public Should Call All Tobacco Makers' Products By Their Name Santa Monica, CA - The public should respond to tobacco maker Phillip Morris's attempt to change its name to the Altria Group through an act…
Focus should be on corporate behavior, not individual behavior Instead of focusing on individual behavior we should focus on corporate behavior. It is wrong-headed for Secretary Thompson to not require one of the nation's most…
Proposition 103 Author Says Feinstein Sided With Insurers to Oppose Insurance Reform in 1988 Harvey Rosenfield, author of California insurance reform initiative Proposition 103, said today that Senator Feinstein has betrayed innocent victims of medical…
State Insurance Regulation Lowered Doctors' Premiums, Data Show Insurance reforms passed by California voters in 1988 dramatically lowered doctors' medical malpractice premiums and led to more stable rates, according to data released by the nonprofit,…
