"… called mental health parity law. Its advocates place the blame squarely on insurance companies.insurance companies make money by covering the healthiest part o …"

"… benefits program, you discourage those people from signing on.Indeed, the insurance industry has continued a prolonged campaign of influence in attempts to bl …"

"… legislation. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, since 1990, insurance interests have contributed approximately $175 million dollars to the campa …"

"… e Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has received approximately $320,000 from insurance interests since 1994. Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and Representative …"

"… oetz’s crop was only worth 20 percent of what it should have been.“The insurance adjuster came, took a sample of my crop, came back a week later and said t …"

"… t- and weather-related diseases,” Koetz said. “I’ve been paying crop insurance for years and in one shot they took away 25 percent of my revenues for the …"

"… �They just wouldn’t cover me,” Koetz, said, despite the fact that crop insurance companies were making profits as high as 70 percent.Koetz fell victim to a …"

"… ercent.Koetz fell victim to a government program virtually run by the crop insurance industry.It is an industry full of former Agriculture Department employees …"

"… Justice Dept. wants copies destroyedIn a Sept. 24 e-mail to Dubbin, Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Orrick III, said the department had “inadverten …"

"… ate. President Obama and Congressional leaders learned the hard way that insurance executives were playing them like a Stradivarius in promising to be good-f …"

"… tate lawmakers will vote in coming weeks on legislation to create a health insurance exchange, as required by federal law. The law directs states to have exc …"

"… insurance has noted, “will promote effective competition for health insurance and offer a wide selection of coverage options to individuals and business …"

"… , where in 2009 BCBSNC took in 71.3 percent of all dollars spent on health insurance premiums, according to the North Carolina Department of insurance. As rece …"

"… public and lawmakers that many of the 51 million Americans without health insurance are uninsured by choice. My premise: most of them were simply shirking the …"

"… er coverage. Many of them had pre-existing conditions and had been told by insurance firms they were not eligible for coverage. They couldn’t buy health …"

"… firms they were not eligible for coverage. They couldn’t buy health insurance at any price. Many others had insurance but were enrolled in plans with su …"

"… ge. They couldn’t buy health insurance at any price. Many others had insurance but were enrolled in plans with such limited benefits or high deductibles …"

"… The bill, which is now on its way to the Senate, would give the state’s insurance commissioner the authority to reject “unreasonable” premium increases. …"

"… ica.Through campaign contributions and effective lobbying, however, health insurance firms have so far been able to stave off rate regulation in California. Ju …"

"… addition to worrying about the possibility of dealing with a more powerful insurance commissioner, Blue Shield has also been getting a raft of bad press lately …"

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

"… mericans." …"

"… ge that it ultimately winds up in the bank accounts of a few investors and insurance company executives, including those who have to power to deny coverage for …"

"… entially life-saving care.If you’ve been paying attention to what health insurance company CEOs have been saying to Wall Street over the past several months, …"

"… surers’ earnings that between 2003 and 2010, the five largest for-profit insurance firms spent $64.1 billion on share buybacks.As HCAN president Ethan Rome t …"

"… uld probably only hasten its complete collapse.When I began working in the insurance industry in 1989, the vast majority of Americans — well over two-thirds …"

"… ic Policy Institute, the share of Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance declined from 64.2 percent in 2000 to 58.5 percent in 2008. Most of that d …"

"… e millions of workers lost their jobs —and along with them, their health insurance — during the recent economic downtown. When the recession officially beg …"

"… in recent years. The Kaiser Family Foundation, which keeps track of health insurance trends, found that the number of firms offering coverage fell from 69 perc …"

"… om 1999 to 2010. The average annual premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in 2010 was $5,049 for single coverage and $13,770 for family coverage. It …"

"… re saying, “thanks but no thanks.”Although most Americans with private insurance still get it through the workplace, our employer-based system of health in …"

"… ce still get it through the workplace, our employer-based system of health insurance is failing more and more of us every year.The structure of the U.S. health …"

"… fits—or they work for businesses that have been priced out of the health insurance market.And there is no relief in sight. According to The Segal Company’s …"

"… es insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical care—the insurance industry is predicting dire consequences for people enrolled in health sav …"

"… lawmakers don’t act soon.America’s Health insurance Plans (AHIP), the insurance lobbying group, warned in a recent report that the rapid growth of HSAs wi …"

"… f coverage through HSA plans.”Having spent nearly 20 years in the health insurance industry, I knew it was just a matter of time before AHIP would mount a bi …"

"… sure a bright future for HSA plans.One of the reasons I left my job in the insurance industry was because I could not in good faith continue to promote HSA pla …"