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DOJ Threat Ends Michigan Health Insurance Deal – Main Justice

“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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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive

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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If Private Health Insurance Companies Are Evil, Why Are You

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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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment, David

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 Picket Insurance Lobby - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

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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Health Care Protesters Face Off Against Insurance Lobbyists

(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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Health Insurance Industry Moans That It's Being Unfairly Vilified

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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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Thousands Tell Big Insurance: Blocking Health

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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Attempted Arrrest of Insurance Execs Draws Closer - The Note

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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Dissident Voice : Disease Care Insurance In A Sick Society

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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