"… 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 …"

"… -it Gold Circle event.Considering what I’ve been disclosing about health insurance companies lately—their record profits and the anti-consumer practices th …"

"… adent gathering of some of the highest paid people in the country—health insurance salespeople. Read on and you’ll understand why.The four-day Gold Circle …"

"… o just “relax and enjoy.”A big chunk of the premiums we pay to private insurance companies goes to sales and marketing activities. Because fewer and fewer …"

"… n afford coverage these days—the number of Americans with private health insurance actually declined in 2009, according to the U.S. Census Bureau—the men a …"

"… 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 …"

"… that today, as three legislative committees hold a joint public hearing on SustiNet, which they actually created in theory but didn’t fund in 2009. If i …"

"… actually created in theory but didn’t fund in 2009. If implemented, SustiNet would provide a health care benefits package starting in 2014 for a prospe …"

"… state legislators in Connecticut passed a bill to create the framework for SustiNet. In an effort to quash funding that SustiNet will need to get off the grou …"

"… l to create the framework for SustiNet. In an effort to quash funding that SustiNet will need to get off the ground this year, the insurance industry will be …"

"… tablish the framework for a state-based public option. The program, called SustiNet, would create pools of people Connecticut already covers — including …"

"… iduals and small businesses that wanted to join. After failing to kill the SustiNet bill in the legislature, insurance firms and their business allies leaned …"

"… peaking at a press conference held on January 19th, 2011, to highlight the SustiNet bill raised by the Connecticut Legislature’s Public Health Committee …"

"… gram, the nation’s first public option will be born. If implemented, SustiNet will be offered as an option along with private carriers in the state&rsqu …"

"… 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 …"

"… f the uninsured. If you think that news would also be troubling for health insurance companies, think again. While the country was struggling to emerge from a …"

"… nd more of us were struggling with no medical coverage, the big for-profit insurance companies were rolling in dough.In fact, 2010 will go down in the history …"

"… ecause the flu season was milder than expected.As someone who helped write insurance company earnings reports, I can tell you that such an explanation doesn’ …"

"… he flu.So how did they manage to make that much money? By refusing to sell insurance to many people who need it most, by denying coverage for many procedures d …"

"… 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 …"