Just two days after President Obama whacked the insurance industry for being an impediment to much-needed health care reform, Kathleen Sebelius took a second swing.
Speaking Wednesday at a national health insurance conference, the White House Health and Human Services secretary blasted the nation’s insurers for a laundry list More…
The Democrats downplaying the gravity of new recommendations for breast cancer screening have left out an inconvenient fact: their health care bills would automatically adopt them.
Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would force insurance plans to follow the new mammogram guidelines for women ages 50 to 74 More…
In a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the health insurance lobby reiterated today that it won’t be supporting the $894 billion reform bill scheduled for a floor vote tomorrow, according to reports.
No shocker here. America’s Health Insurance Plans has long feared the consequences to More…
Karen Ignagni, head of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry lobby, fired back today against the charges that the industry is dead set against health care reform this year. The group has taken plenty of heat for sponsoring a report earlier this month indicating that the More…
The Democrats’ plans to overhaul the nation’s dysfunctional health care system took a giant step forward Tuesday when the Senate Finance Committee passed a $829 billion proposal designed to expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans while reining in runaway health care costs.
The vote was 14 to 9, with More…
The insurance industry over the weekend released a controversial report indicating that Americans’ insurance premiums would shoot up by thousands of dollars if the Democrats’ health reform bill becomes law. It was the industry’s attempt to kill the bill after months of claiming support for health reform, which, More…
When the talk of health care reform was generic — and therefore unthreatening — the insurance lobby joined a number of other powerful voices in the health care industry to announce its support. But with the Democrats pushing ever-harder to ensure the inclusion of a public More…
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