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“We welcome the decision by Blue Cross-Michigan and Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan to abandon their deal, which will preserve competition among health insurance companies in Lansing,” Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney …
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0 Comments More than 1000 protesters, including representatives of organized labor, marched through downtown Washington before stopping in front of the Ritz Carlton, site of the annual conference of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), …
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A big part of the final push for this health care reform effort is focused on how terrible the private insurance companies are. On the White House blog, communications director Dan Pfeiffer is attacking the huge premium increases and …
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On unemployment insurance this person receives about 55 percent of normal earnings, or $8.25 per lost work hour. If that person is in a 15 percent federal tax bracket and a 3 percent state tax bracket, he or she pays $1.49 in taxes per …
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Protesters leave a message for insurers and Congress in the asphalt, but they won’t have the last word just yet.
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(Jeremy Binckes contributed to this report.) Hundreds if not thousands of protesters and labor activists descended upon the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington today to try to make things a little more difficult for the health insurance …
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To hear them tell it, the insurance industry is a low-profit industry that spends just one cent of every premium dollar on administration and strives to reduce costs by encouraging efficiencies. Insurers “do not deserve to be vilified …
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Workers repeatedly expressed how they struggle to afford health insurance, an ever-growing expense that is eating away at their ability to pay a mortgage or send children to college. Here’s George Estright, a member of AFSCME Local 2162 …
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Liberal health reform advocates have encircled Washington’s Ritz Carlton Hotel, site of the industry’s annual policy conference. The Note, authored by ABC News’ Rick Klein, covers politics, the White House, Congress, Democrats, …
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Drummond made the often overlooked points that, (1) health insurance is not really that at all, but rather, “sickness insurance,” and, (2) the social roots of disease in the U.S. are a source of considerable private profit, …
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