Compromise Could Endanger More Generous State Law Reforms The composition of the conference committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate meeting today to discuss HMO reform is unfairly tilted toward the HMO industry…
The Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today it would call upon the United States Justice Department to stop the proposed merger of Aetna and Wellpoint Health, two of the nation's…
May Be Necessary Evil For Managed Care Age The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights issued tentative support for new California legislation (SB 2007) that drops anti-trust barriers to collective bargaining by physicians, but said…
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) and Assembly Member Sheila Kuehl joined with Peter Berman, a Deputy District Attorney for the County of Los Angeles, who discussed his wife's death due to cancer…
Consumer Group Called For Resignation One Year Ago, Retracted Last Night One day after the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) retracted its year-old request for Aetna CEO Richard Huber's resignation, Huber resigned under…
Huber Called Secret Weapon For HMO Patients' Rights Movement The Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) distributed a letter to Aetna shareholders today at their meeting in Hartford, Connecticut retracting its February 9, 1999…
