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ANALYSIS: The 'clear obscurity' of the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

Health insurance industry follows E.B. White's advice to be clearly obscure

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Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: 'Occupy Wall Street' should also take aim at health insurance companies

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: How our health care system cripples small business

By Wendell Potter

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Chamber of Commerce flowchart linked to former insurance industry lobbyist

By Joe Eaton

Free-market cheerleaders have long relied on the flowchart to push their notion that government intervention makes a hash of things. Republi

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A single-payer plan for Vermont

By Wendell Potter

FACT CHECK: Will health care law raise insurance premiums?

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ANALYSIS: 'ObamaCare' label is sticking

By Wendell Potter

Mass. health law may bode well for federal law

By The Associated Press

ANALYSIS: Health insurance companies are on a stock buyback binge

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health insurance companies buying back billions of dollars of their own stock

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As they lobby for a tax holiday, some big multinational players say they've got plenty of cash on hand

By John Aloysius Farrell and Aaron Mehta

Analysis — Health insurance corporate profits spiked despite dire predictions of health care reform wreckage

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Insurance exchanges tilted toward health insurers, not consumers

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Real-world health insurance math doesn't add up

By Wendell Potter

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Top health information technology firms prefer 'revolving door' lobbyists

By Josh Israel

Top health information technology firms want lobbyists with Capitol Hill or executive branch experience

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More than 2,000 spin through revolving door

By Elizabeth Brown

On financial reform bill, 52 percent of lobbyists worked in government

By Caitlin Ginley and M.B. Pell

How the Feds stack up

By The Center for Public Integrity

Disclosure filings by lobbyists still incomplete

By Matthew Lewis

FACT CHECK: Romney didn’t OK new benefits for illegal immigrants

By FactCheck.Org

Contrary to Gov. Rick Perry's claim, Mass. 2006 health care law included no coverage for illegal immigrants

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FACT CHECK: The Gingrich counterattack in Florida

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FACT CHECK: Did Romney’s health care law kill jobs?

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Governors put off health care questions, for now

By The Associated Press

FACT CHECK: Final four GOP candidates face off in South Carolina

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Analysis — Fear and loathing over a public insurance option in Hartford

By Wendell Potter

Will a "public option" have a better chance in Hartford than in Washington? Not if the insurance companies have anything to say about it. ..

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ANALYSIS: Connecticut's insurers are flexing their muscles at the statehouse

By Wendell Potter

Analysis — Insurers’ ‘friends’ will influence public option debate in Conn.

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Could nonprofit health insurance plans be the real reformers?

By Wendell Potter

Mass. health law may bode well for federal law

By The Associated Press

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A single-payer plan for Vermont

By Wendell Potter

While some states are suing to halt health care reform, Vermont is moving forward with a single-payer plan

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ANALYSIS: Losing the public relations war

By Wendell Potter

Emergency room visits up 11 percent in last decade; health care reform could drive numbers higher

By Laurel Adams

ANALYSIS: The battle for Vermont's health

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: An abiding faith in reform

By Wendell Potter

Federal judge with medical industry investments rules against health care law

By Laurel Adams

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who ruled Monday that the health care reform law is unconstitutional, holds financial investments in healt

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A single-payer plan for Vermont

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: An abiding faith in reform

By Wendell Potter

Emergency room visits up 11 percent in last decade; health care reform could drive numbers higher

By Laurel Adams

ANALYSIS: 'ObamaCare' label is sticking

By Wendell Potter

Health insurance eats up 9 percent of Pentagon’s total budget

By Laurel Adams

The cost of health insurance for active duty and retired military personnel has increased from $19 billion in 2001 to $49 billion in 2010. T

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Army health building upgrade canceled after questions raised about cost estimates

By Julie Vorman

Health care options for young, healthy and broke

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For 12-Year-Old without an arm, insurance has run out

By Danielle Ivory

ANALYSIS: A new affront group

By Wendell Potter

Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

Insurance brokers seek change in health reform provision to protect profits

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Ask Wendell: How to find health insurance

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: The 'clear obscurity' of the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Translating the insurance industry's feel-good rhetoric

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