ANALYSIS: Opaque transparency from the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Insurers crying foul over new rules for premium hikes

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… er of blame at just about everyone else. The real culprits, AHIP president Karen Ignagni insisted, are greedy doctors and hospitals, state legislators who make ins …"

Analysis — Insurers lobbying on the fine print may erase consumer protections

By Wendell Potter

One of the provisions of the health reform law that insurers hate most requires that they spend at least 80 percent of what we pay them in p

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… ies as a medical expense. America’s Health Insurance Plans president Karen Ignagni told the House Ways and Means Committee last week that if Congress doesn&r …"

ANALYSIS: Health savings accounts lucrative for insurers, costly for consumers

By Wendell Potter

Insurers fight requirement to spend 80% of premium on care

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… r millions of families and employees across the country,” AHIP president Karen Ignagni said.Really?What Ignagni did not say was that only the wealthiest American …"

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OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

By Wendell Potter

For-profit health care is the norm today, but the system was born out of a more 'community'-driven beginning.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… h as younger ones.)During the reform debate, the insurer’s top lobbyist, Karen Ignagni, argued that insurers should have maximum “benefit design flexibility, …"

Health insurance PACs have love-hate relationship with health care reform

By Reity O'Brien

Health insurance PACs gave generously to reform opponents while supporting the Obama plan.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… reform efforts.“We are ready to be accountable to these [new] rules,” Karen Ignagni, AHIP’s president and CEO told the Senate Finance Committee in May 2009, …"

OPINION: translating insurance-speak

By Wendell Potter

Insurance industry statements belie real intentions on Obamacare

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… were  publicly expressing support for the reform law. AHIP president Karen Ignagni said in April 2010, a month after the president signed the Affordable Care …"

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OPINION: 'Disrupt' the new buzzword of Obamacare opponents

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: 'Disrupt' is the new buzzword of Obamacare opponents

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… this period of time, the lame duck, about the impact of the premium tax.”Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, also seems to believe th …"

OPINION: Giving thanks for regulation of insurance industry greed

By Wendell Potter

New HHS rules will help consumers and keep insurers in check.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… . The health insurance industry is not waving the white flag by any means. Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurers, said last summer that insurers …"

OPINION: taking advantage of Medicare Advantage

By Wendell Potter

Feds have been overpaying for Medicare Advantage.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Karen Ignagni":

"… ed.  I asked for it, but no one has gotten back to me. AHIP’s CEO, Karen Ignagni, has been quoted as saying that the MA program will go into a “tailspin …"