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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

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ANALYSIS: Opaque transparency from the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

U.S. states step up oversight of health insurance companies' rate increases

By Alexandra Duszak

Program to help small farmers now virtually run by industry

By Gil Shochat

ANALYSIS: Keeping an eye on insurance rates in the Golden State

By Wendell Potter

Analysis — The false promise and big profits of ‘mini-med’ health plans

By Wendell Potter

One of the reasons I left my job as a PR executive for the health insurance industry was because I could not in good conscience be a pitchma

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ANALYSIS: 'Purging' small business coverage to hike health insurance profits

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Taking the initiative in a struggle against excessive rate increases

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Obama plan helping those with pre-existing health conditions

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Are insurers influencing health reform's rules behind closed doors?

By Wendell Potter

Analysis – Insurers’ cynical calculations on the cost of doing business

By Wendell Potter

Insurers are punished for misbehavior all the time, but almost no one notices and the firms see the penalties as the cost of doing business.

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Analysis — The false promise and big profits of ‘mini-med’ health plans

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health insurers win big in Maine

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Are insurers influencing health reform's rules behind closed doors?

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: The staying power of junk health insurance

By Wendell Potter

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ANALYSIS: 'Purging' small business coverage to hike health insurance profits

By Wendell Potter

Health insurance firms 'purging' small businesses coverage to jack up profits

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Analysis — The false promise and big profits of ‘mini-med’ health plans

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Obama plan helping those with pre-existing health conditions

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Taking the initiative in a struggle against excessive rate increases

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Are insurers influencing health reform's rules behind closed doors?

By Wendell Potter

Insurance industry battles bill mandating mental health coverage

By Kevin Bogardus

WASHINGTON, August 13, 2002 — James Hackett learned about the inequities in the coverage of mental health services after his teenage daughte

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ANALYSIS: Health insurers would make consumers pay for better information

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: This just in, insurers required to speak plain English

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Obama plan helping those with pre-existing health conditions

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: A new affront group

By Wendell Potter

Program to help small farmers now virtually run by industry

By Gil Shochat

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2001 — When Brad Koetz was told that his impressive sunflower yield was unfit for human consumption, he was taken abac

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

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U.S. states step up oversight of health insurance companies' rate increases

By Alexandra Duszak

ANALYSIS: Opaque transparency from the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: gaming Obamacare to benefit the few

By Wendell Potter

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ANALYSIS: Employer-based health care system is crumbling fast, may not survive

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Employer-based health care has been crumbling for several years

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ANALYSIS: Who is essential? Insurers or consumers?

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Imagine primary care without the need for costly health insurance

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: A smart investment in kids' health

By Wendell Potter

In health care, number of claims denied remains a mystery

By Danielle Ivory

ANALYSIS: Cost of health coverage leaves working folks further and further behind

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Employer-based health care system demanding more from families with stagnating wages

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ANALYSIS: Ripple effect of 'cost-shifting' uncompensated medical care

By Wendell Potter

At Appalachian Fairgrounds, charity tries to fill gaps in health care

By Lagan Sebert

In health care, number of claims denied remains a mystery

By Danielle Ivory

Analysis — An illuminating expedition to the world of the uninsured

By Wendell Potter

Government-subsidized flood insurance premiums are about half of full-risk price

By Laurel Adams

Repeat flooded properties rose 73 percent in a decade

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We can’t afford another flood

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Analysis – Insurers’ cynical calculations on the cost of doing business

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health insurers win big in Maine

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health insurers would make consumers pay for better information

By Wendell Potter

Mortgage servicing standards at the top of consumer agency's agenda

By Julie Vorman and Shirley Gao

New consumer agency sets mortgage servicing standards as a top priority

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Raging against the foreclosure machine

Big banks can fund mortgage aid programs If government won't, says Democrat

By Julie Vorman

Ginnie Mae's troubling endorsements

By Brian Grow and Zachary Goldfarb

Predatory lending: A decade of warnings

By Kat Aaron

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