"… ractices that have enabled them to pad those bottom lines.When Ignagni and insurance company executives speak, it is important to parse their words to understa …"

"… d participation in the system.”Take it from me, a 20-year veteran of the insurance industry: that line about commitment to a strong safety net for “our nat …"

"… ay for expanding coverage for the uninsured.  The greed of the health insurance industry knows no bounds. insurance companies will get billions of dollars …"

"… rs will get subsidies from the federal government to help them buy private insurance. So insurance companies will get new premium revenue not only from individ …"

"… bsidies from the federal government to help them buy private insurance. So insurance companies will get new premium revenue not only from individuals and famil …"

"… eat every crumb of it, too.There will be little evidence, of course, that insurance firms are  behind this campaign. To obscure their involvement, insure …"

"… of Health and Human Services did us a big favor by resisting pressure from insurance company executives. Those executives wanted to keep charging some of us mo …"

"… HS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reaffirmed last week that starting in 2014, insurance firms will not be able to discriminate against us nearly as much as they c …"

"… o pay out of pocket if we get sick or injured.Even though HHS did give the insurance industry some wiggle room on the essential benefits and the upper limits o …"

"… that matter, Kalamazoo.Still, let’s not get too comfortable. The health insurance industry is not waving the white flag by any means. Karen Ignagni, preside …"

"… om over. …"

"… ccepted hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two decades from the insurance industry in an effort to kill or weaken health reform initiatives designed …"

"… oup that purports to represents small businesses, the Stop the HIT (health insurance tax) Coalition. Insurers are using that group as part of its campaign to g …"

"… o get Congress to repeal an Obamacare provision that imposes a fee on some insurance policies. Revenue from the fee will help subsidize coverage for millions o …"

"… e Los Angeles-based Consumer Watchdog, which has been leading an effort in California to give the state’s insurance commissioner the authority to reject unjus …"

"… mously said, “There you go again.”The culprits in this case are health insurance companies that want to change ObamaCare so they can keep selling highly pr …"

"… t want to change ObamaCare so they can keep selling highly profitable junk insurance to young people and keep charging older folks so much in premiums they hav …"

"… raises concerns that this new effort may also have been influenced by the insurance industry. (Oliver Wyman has not responded to my request for comment.)Even …"

"… that offer coverage or they don’t make enough money to pay the premiums insurance companies charge.Because so many of them have low (or no) incomes, an esti …"

"… hy we need to keep you around. …"

"… , to persuade lawmakers that they need to take immediate action to prevent insurance premiums from going up more than usual.But while we agree that lawmakers d …"

"… it’s time to focus on the value—or lack thereof—that private health insurance companies actually add to our health care system.Several years ago, a cowo …"

"… his country creates the perfect environment for overtreatment. But to hear insurance company executives tell it, they are blameless.That’s certainly the case …"

"… by the public than your own company or industry. This is a staple of the insurance industry’s playbook —my former colleagues know that they’re not espe …"

"… that prohibit them from selling what many consumer advocates call “junk insurance” and that prohibit them from charging older customers more than three ti …"

"… , healthier individuals could be surprised to see the cost of their health insurance increase dramatically, potentially skyrocketing 40 percent or more when ne …"

"… , including a 3 to 1 limit on the use of age, broader benefits, the health insurance tax, as well as other changes will cause the insurance premiums to increas …"

"… lahoma shows just how vital investigative journalists are—and how health insurance agents and brokers may be anything but vital in just a matter of months. …"

"… ght out the help of agents and brokers — known as “producers” in the insurance world — to help them find coverage for themselves, their families and th …"

"… e have had to do this because, until recently, the information provided by insurance companies about their policies has been incomprehensible. Producers — th …"

"… led that because they “produce” business and, consequently income, for insurance companies — have been the middlemen many of us have relied upon to inter …"

"… when Americans will have to begin making decisions about purchasing health insurance, but, according to a survey released last week, more than two-thirds of pe …"

"… mandatory. On October 1, as required by the law, states must have online insurance marketplaces (known as exchanges) up and running so their residents can sh …"

"… ns, resource partners of the Small Business Administration, other licensed insurance agents and brokers, and other entities” the Feds deem capable. In the p …"

"… er formally recognized “navigators” to help people decide what kind of insurance policy makes the most sense for them. The agents and brokers have made a g …"