"… t would have a better home in the office of the chief flack for the health insurance industry. Yesterday, Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America’s Health Insur …"

"… fourth highest of the 16 industries in the health care sector. The health insurance industry has a higher return for investors than cell phone companies, beer companie …"

"… paper, they surely would not have brought it to the media's attention. The insurance industry does not fare well at all.A major point of the Thomson Reuters paper is th …"

"… ”Then there were these bullet points that surely will never appear in an insurance industry presentation:The average U.S. hospital spends one quarter of its budget on …"

"… eir commissions if they have to include them in the MLR equation. So the insurance industry and the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), the trade asso …"

"… the final reform bill in Washington because of intense opposition from the insurance industry. Vermont’s third option would be a single-payer system with a twis …"

"… quash funding that SustiNet will need to get off the ground this year, the insurance industry will be calling in favors from its friends in the business world. That&rsq …"

"… ory of being tight with Republican candidates and lawmakers and the health insurance industry. I know this first-hand from working closely with the NFIB in previous att …"

"… age is almost verbatim from one of the talking points I used when I was an insurance industry PR executive. The reality is that the public option enjoyed significant …"

"… And if it succeeds like previous efforts, people won’t even know the insurance industry is pulling the strings -- or that they themselves will be financing the ca …"

"… their own spokespeople don’t have the credibility to pull it off.)One of insurance industry’s most reliable allies, Sally C. Pipes of the conservative think tank Pa …"

"… very year because they don’t have insurance.So the next time you hear an insurance industry flack or apologist complain about those “measly” profit margins, don� …"

"… of breast cancer but of “rescission,” a once-prevalent practice in the insurance industry. The congressional panel – the House Energy and Commerce Committee — d …"

"… save their lives. I know this firsthand from nearly two decades inside the insurance industry.You don’t have to take my word for it. Just ask Hilda and Grigor Sarkisy …"

"… milar front groups during the nearly two decades I spent inside the health insurance industry, I can hardly wait to see how the CCC will take shape, who will be its chi …"

"… ning that second-hand smoke might cause health problems for nonsmokers.The insurance industry took notice of that campaign and hired APCO when thousands of doctors file …"

"… in how they operate their exchanges. Utah already has an exchange, and the insurance industry really likes it. That’s because the exchange is little more than a websi …"

"… itico, the CCC will include America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the insurance industry’s big lobbying group; AHIP’s longtime ally, the U.S. Chamber of Commer …"

"… in protecting their industries. I will bet you a copy of my book that the insurance industry helped shape, directly or indirectly, chairman Ryan’s proposals. They wo …"

"… the light of day.And of course these truths are not limited to the health insurance industry. Every industry has a raft of lobbyists and professional spinners. There a …"

"… ld alter Medicare. Shortly after I testified before Congress about how the insurance industry was conducting a behind-the-scenes campaign to influence public opinion ab …"

"… Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., invited me to share my perspective as a former insurance industry insider at his Sept. 3, 2009, town hall meeting at Montclair State Univers …"

"… ts planned to dismantle the program.There was no doubt in my mind that the insurance industry was the original source of that lie. While insurers liked the part of refo …"

"… : A provision of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, written primarily by the insurance industry and backed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Trent …"