Insured profits

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health execs get richer as Americans beg for help to pay bills

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"… iver in South America. Today, most of RAM’s “expeditions” are in the United States, and increasingly they are to locations that are not at all remote. I went …"

ANALYSIS: Blue Cross, Blue Shield get richer by borrowing playbook of corporate insurers

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Examining the soaring profits of the nonprofit Blues

A single-payer plan for Vermont

By Wendell Potter

While some states are suing to halt health care reform, Vermont is moving forward with a single-payer plan

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"… ow other countries with single-payer systems do a much better job than the United States in making sure their citizens get the care they need.Richter and Oxfeld te …"

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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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"… t, owns and operates several in-vitro fertilization centers throughout the United States. Her employees are mostly clinical professionals, including physicians. Sh …"

FDIC slow to pursue failed bank directors, recover tax dollars

With the FDIC struggling to manage huge losses to its insurance fund, critics say the agency should do more to hold executives of failed ban

SEC extracts fines, but not confessions

Federal judge scolds SEC for routinely letting businesses and executives settle civil lawsuits without admitting any guilt....

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"… “palpable” disservice to the public interest.“Here an agency of the United States is saying, in effect, ‘Although we claim that these defendants have done …"

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WaMu, other banks motivated by greed, financial crisis probe concludes

By David Heath

WaMu, other bankers knowingly sold bad loans, Senate probe of crisis concludes

Could rupture of aging pipeline ignite nuclear plant's control room?

By Susan Q. Stranahan

Could rupture of aging pipeline ignite nuclear plant's control room?

No guarantees at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

By John Solomon

Last November, the federal corporation charged with protecting Americans’ retirement funds issued an ominous public warning: the amount of p

Geithner's threat to tap congressional retirement funds rings hollow

By John Aloysius Farrell

Don't worry if Treasury is tapping the G Fund; it'll be paid back in full

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