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

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OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

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

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ANALYSIS: How our health care system cripples small business

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Chamber of Commerce flowchart linked to former insurance industry lobbyist

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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

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FACT CHECK: Will health care law raise insurance premiums?

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ANALYSIS: 'ObamaCare' label is sticking

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Mass. health law may bode well for federal law

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ANALYSIS: Health insurance companies are on a stock buyback binge

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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

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

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ANALYSIS: Insurance exchanges tilted toward health insurers, not consumers

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

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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

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

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How the Feds stack up

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Disclosure filings by lobbyists still incomplete

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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Mass. health law may bode well for federal law

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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

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

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ANALYSIS: The battle for Vermont's health

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ANALYSIS: An abiding faith in reform

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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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ANALYSIS: An abiding faith in reform

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

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ANALYSIS: 'ObamaCare' label is sticking

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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

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Health care options for young, healthy and broke

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

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ANALYSIS: A new affront group

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Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

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Insurance brokers seek change in health reform provision to protect profits

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Ask Wendell: How to find health insurance

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OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

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

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

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