"… xactly what he means. I have spoken to hundreds of groups about the health insurance industry over the past two years, and invariably at least one person—and …"

"… ining coverage.  They assume that someone who spent two decades as an insurance company executive ought to be able to help them out.Unfortunately, I have …"

"… remiums for their workers, might at least slow that trend. Some of the big insurance companies have reported a recent uptick in the number of small businesses …"

"… ent, most  small companies are still finding it difficult to pay what insurance firms are demanding.  Another Kaiser Family Foundation study found th …"

"… t would have a better home in the office of the chief flack for the health insurance industry. Yesterday, Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America’s Hea …"

"… ok issue with AHIP’s assertion that the average profit margin for health insurance firms is just 4.4 percent. Zirkelbach did not explain how he came up with …"

"… fourth highest of the 16 industries in the health care sector. The health insurance industry has a higher return for investors than cell phone companies, beer …"

"… estors than cell phone companies, beer companies, mortgage companies, life insurance companies, TV broadcasters, drug store companies, or grocery stores.”Zir …"

"… ican  citizens, especially healthy young people who decide not to buy insurance.What triggered AHIP’s protest was the announcement last Thursday by Heal …"

"… sed to tell us their justification for hiking premiums."Focusing on health insurance premiums while ignoring underlying medical cost drivers will not make heal …"

"… f luck. We’re all out of luck. Are you struggling to pay for health insurance? Have you or your family had problems with health insurance companies? Tel …"

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

"… darn. Another spring has arrived and I haven’t received my invitation to CIGNA’s so-exclusive-you’ve-never-heard-about-it Gold Circle event.Consideri …"

"… 000 or more “lives” (workers and their dependents). The salespeople at CIGNA who pilfer the most profitable accounts of any size, but especially jumbos …"

"… r style, this is a circle of thieves you definitely want to be in.A former CIGNA sales star who decided to get out of that line of work sent me a copy of t …"

"… emiums for actual medical care. That provision alone is a major reason why insurance companies and their allies invested so heavily in Republican candidates la …"

"… ey are well on their way to getting what they want. As recently as 1993, insurance firms on average spent 95 percent of premiums they collected to pay medica …"

"… edical expenditures that would count in reaching that 80 cent plateau. But insurance company executives—and the independent agents and brokers who sell t …"

"… eir commissions if they have to include them in the MLR equation. So the insurance industry and the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), the t …"

"… o;t survive — and that was no accident. In Washington, lobbyists for insurance companies wanted to kill the public option, because they knew it would be …"

"… it was included in the House version passed in the fall of 2009. Alarmed, insurance lobbyists went to work in the Senate and hit paydirt when they convinced S …"

"… the public option, but also had to manage relationships with several rich insurance company executives who are among his most powerful constituents. Lieberman …"

"… did not include what President Obama had said was necessary “to keep insurance companies honest” and to ensure that Americans had at least one opti …"

"… ions in the area are the country’s four biggest for-profit insurers: Aetna, CIGNA, UnitedHealthcare and WellPoint. But SustiNet supporters will hav …"

"… mericans not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid buy coverage from a private insurance company. That provision alone will result in hundreds of billions of dolla …"

"… the mandate. Expect a big lobbying and PR campaign — financed by our insurance premiums — to persuade us that the new regulations and consumer prot …"

"… those committees are doing, I can speculate from previous experience as an insurance company executive that the committees are developing strategies in these a …"

"… d on Sept. 31, 1999, that Scruggs was planning to file charges against the insurance firms. On that day, stock prices of Aetna and United alone had plunged nea …"

"… r-profit health insurers.Over the past few weeks, UnitedHealth, WellPoint, Aetna, CIGNA and Humana—reported fourth quarter 2010 earnings, and all but Hum …"

"… UnitedHealth’s profit margin last year was 4.92; WellPoint’s was 4.91; Aetna’s was 5.16; and CIGNA’s was 6.35. The profit margin for Humana, the ru …"

"… nts were terrified before the law was passed because the family’s health insurance policy had a $1 million lifetime cap. Thanks to a provision in the law tha …"

"… e to pay for needed medical care is Robin Beaton of Waxahachie, Texas. Her insurance company notified her the day before a scheduled mastectomy two years ago t …"

"… er coverage. Why? Because Robin had forgotten to note when she applied for insurance that she had previously been treated for acne.So Beaton – who told her s …"

"… of breast cancer but of “rescission,” a once-prevalent practice in the insurance industry. The congressional panel – the House Energy and Commerce Commit …"