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ANALYSIS: It's time to get outraged

By Wendell Potter

America's dysfunctional health care system is responsible for countless horror stories, but many folks aren't paying attention

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"… hard Verone has a tumor in his chest and two ruptured disks, but no job or health insurance. He is one of those 50 million Americans I mentioned earlier. Verone told …"

"… e and saying, ‘I’m so sorry.’ ”Blair’s mother, a widow, lost her health insurance soon after suffering a severe heart attack.  She was unable to get an …"

ANALYSIS: How our health care system cripples small business

By Wendell Potter

Small business innovation is being stifled by a health care system that send our 'best and brightest' to large corporations

Excerpts from this story referencing "health insurance":

"… is form . …"

"… all business? Wendell Potter wants to hear about your experience obtaining health insurance. Help inform our reporting by taking a few minutes to fill out   …"

ANALYSIS: Insurance exchanges tilted toward health insurers, not consumers

By Wendell Potter

Appointments to boards governing insurance exchanges raise doubts about just who's being protected

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"… s— “exchanges”—where individuals and small businesses can shop for health insurance. In the 15 months since the law took effect, insurers have lobbied the Oba …"

"… ir first two wishes. But they hoped HHS would at least agree that allowing health insurance executives to serve on exchange boards would create a ‘foxes-guarding-th …"

"… The state had no obligation, in her view, to inspect all the apples in the health insurance barrel and throw out the bad ones.A majority of her colleagues agreed with …"

"… olorado, he couldn’t find qualified candidates who understand commercial health insurance to balance industry executives with obvious conflicts of interest. I know …"

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

By Wendell Potter

Dan Malloy's health care promises have turned into disappointment

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"… he federal reform law, where individuals and small businesses can shop for health insurance.Instead of ensuring that the governing board of the Colorado exchange be c …"

"… egislation reaching his desk that would increase the number of people with health insurance and bring down costs—as SustiNet’s developers said it would do—while …"

ANALYSIS: Insurers value profits over people

By Wendell Potter

Columnist Wendell Potter says insurers' quarterly reports show earnings up; health care down

U.S. states step up oversight of health insurance companies' rate increases

By Alexandra Duszak

U.S. states tap $250 million in health reform law grants to scrutinize premium increases

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"… purchasing individual plans. …"

"… nsurance regulators had the power to approve or reject all rate filings by health insurance companies in 2010, others could review rate increases only after they took …"

"… authority over premium increases last year.Premiums paid by Americans for health insurance from their employers more than doubled in the past decade, according to th …"

"… e Kaiser Family Foundation. iWatch News columnist Wendell Potter, a former health insurance industry executive, described in a May analysis how U.S. health insurance …"

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ANALYSIS: Imagine primary care without the need for costly health insurance

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Primary care doctors eliminate insurance middleman

Excerpts from this story referencing "health insurance":

"… How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans.  …"

ANALYSIS: Great Scott! Florida governor limits health care choices for state employees

By Wendell Potter

Florida Gov. Rick Scott criticized 'Obamacare'; now he's cutting health care choices for Florida state employees

Excerpts from this story referencing "health insurance":

"… lly a proposal calling for the federal  government to create a public health insurance option to compete with private insurers.In one ad, the narrator said the v …"

"… her or not Americans would be able to keep their own doctors and their own health insurance plans. The implication was clear — people would lose the ability to choo …"

ANALYSIS: Romney and Scott in Wonderland

By Wendell Potter

Illuminating statements: Scott administration says limits on choices aren't limits at all; Romney tells us corporations are people

Drug lobby second to none

By M. Asif Ismail

How the pharmaceutical industry gets its way in Washington

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"… ls.By adding the benefit to Medicare, the government program that provides health insurance to some 41 million people, the industry found a reliable purchaser for its …"

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