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

By Wendell Potter

March 8, 2011

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

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

By Wendell Potter

March 28, 2011

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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"… e market disruption and decrease access to health care, the law allows the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to issue waivers from the ban on restrictive an …"

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

By Wendell Potter

March 31, 2011

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.

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

By Wendell Potter

May 16, 2011

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

Insurance industry battles bill mandating mental health coverage

By Kevin Bogardus

August 13, 2002

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

Program to help small farmers now virtually run by industry

By Gil Shochat

April 17, 2001

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

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

By Wendell Potter

June 16, 2011

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

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

By Wendell Potter

June 20, 2011

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

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

By Laurel Adams

June 23, 2011

Repeat flooded properties rose 73 percent in a decade

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

By Julie Vorman and Shirley Gao

July 7, 2011

New consumer agency sets mortgage servicing standards as a top priority

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