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Insured profits

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health execs get richer as Americans beg for help to pay bills

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"… ut the good fortune of UnitedHealth Group, one of the big seven for-profit health insurance companies, and its CEO, Stephen J. Hemsley. Last week, UnitedHealth please …"

"… e highest paid CEO in America, were suddenly much wealthier.Owners of health insurance company stock have continued to get richer this week. On Tuesday, Humana I …"

"… ecision to quit my job and start speaking out about the abuses of the U.S. health insurance industry.Stan wrote to tell me about RAM’s most recent two expeditions i …"

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

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Examining the soaring profits of the nonprofit Blues

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"… have been reporting.  Last year—as the number of Americans without health insurance grew to nearly 51 million—the five largest for-profit insurers (Aetna, C …"

"… he medical loss ratio. In 1993, the average medical loss ratio in the health insurance industry was 95 percent, which meant that insurers spent 95 cents out of e …"

ANALYSIS: Are insurers writing the health reform regulations?

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Media has stopped watching health reform; insurers taking advantage

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"… e upper hand in dealing with the White House.Are you struggling to pay for health insurance? Have you or your family had problems with health insurance companies? Tel …"

"… ing to pay for health insurance? Have you or your family had problems with health insurance companies? Tell Wendell Potter your story: wpotter@publicintegrity.org …"

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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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"… remain—not the least of which is overcoming intense opposition from the health insurance industry and its corporate and political allies in the years ahead. For no …"

"… health of many of her patients deteriorate because they couldn’t afford health insurance. In many cases her patients were considered uninsurable—they couldn’t …"

"… other and sister were not so fortunate, however, because they did not have health insurance. The young man went blind and died soon after his 21st birthday because of …"

"… or when he signs the bill into law this week.Are you struggling to pay for health insurance? Have you or your family had problems with health insurance companies? Tel …"

Special treatment for 'high profile' patients; exasperation for the rest of us

By Wendell Potter

The president's mother and his struggle for health care reform

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"… tle more influential to get sick.Have you or your family had problems with health insurance companies? Tell Wendell Potter your story: wpotter@publicintegrity.or …"

ANALYSIS: 'Purging' small business coverage to hike health insurance profits

By Wendell Potter

Health insurance firms 'purging' small businesses coverage to jack up profits

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"… re far more likely to be worrying about whether they’ll be able to offer health insurance to their employees for another year.Or is this the year they join the ever …"

"… al Small Business Association, the number of small businesses that provide health insurance to their employees fell from 61 percent in 1993 to 38 percent in 2009.Dr. …"

"… she acknowledged that she’ll have to consider   discontinuing health insurance as an employee benefit, a prospect she never imagined.If Maassarani throws …"

"… ebrating National Small Business Week.  Are you struggling to pay for health insurance? Have you or your family had problems with health insurance companies? Tel …"

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Scared Red: The PACs that followed the nation rightward in 2010

By Josh Israel, Aaron Mehta and Elizabeth Lucas

The PACs that followed the nation rightward in 2010

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"… ng frustration with the governing Democrats as they enacted groundbreaking health insurance, financial services, and credit card reform legislation in the 111th Congr …"

"… services sectors that switched over the past two cycles.“From repealing health insurance reform for the insurance companies to repealing Wall Street reform for the …"

"… onations went to Republicans.WellMed Medical Group of San Antonio provides health insurance plans to more than 87,000 people — mostly Medicare-eligible seniors in A …"

Chamber seeks cash from insurers, financial firms for new effort

By Peter H. Stone

Even as it plowed tens of millions of dollars into ads this year to help mostly Republicans notch Congressional victories, the U.S. Chamber

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"… f Commerce was initiating a new effort to raise millions more from energy, health insurance, financial services, and other firms to fund a new anti-regulatory campaig …"

Aetna, Humana, other insurers mull new group to influence November races

By Peter H. Stone

Five of the nation’s largest health insurers are in serious discussions about creating a new nonprofit group and bankrolling it to the tune

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"… mportant to the companies since the new drive will also try to improve the health insurance industry’s public image after the beating it took during a year-long fig …"

Children’s health insurance status related to parent’s health coverage

By Laurel Adams

A study reveals children’s health insurance status is closely aligned with that of their parents. The health care reform law would expand he

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"… call centers. (Congressional Research Service) …"

"… ligned with that of their parents. The health care reform law would expand health insurance to an additional 32 million, many of whom are parents.The General Accounti …"

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