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ANALYSIS: Blue Cross, Blue Shield get richer by borrowing playbook of corporate insurers

By Wendell Potter

May 2, 2011

ANALYSIS: Examining the soaring profits of the nonprofit Blues

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May 31, 2011

ANALYSIS: Putting our premiums into medical care, not profits

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April 30, 2012

ANALYSIS: Nonprofit insurers accustomed to double-digit rate hikes fight California plan

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June 27, 2011

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