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New Site To Let Us Monitor Health Insurance Rate Hikes

October 7, 2011

From USA Today: By Kelly Kennedy WASHINGTON – Beginning Thursday, consumers across the country can click their state on a federal Web page to see if a health insurer has raised its rates, as well as the company’s reason for doing so. That information was mostly unavailable before, said Steve Larsen, the Department of Health…

Feds To Unveil Health-Insurance Exchange Details

August 17, 2011

From The Wall Street Journal: Associated Press/Don Berwick, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will help unveil the plan Wednesday. By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS And JANET ADAMY Consumers shopping for health insurance will soon get a peek at a new standard form—akin to the nutrition label on food products—that will lay out…

ALEC Exposed: Sabotaging Healthcare Reform

August 15, 2011

From wendellpotter.com: By Wendell Potter on July 12th, 2011 This article is part of a Nation series exposing the American Legislative Exchange Council, in collaboration with the Center For Media and Democracy. Days after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, I arrived at the spring 2010 meeting of the National Association of…

State Health Exchanges Leaning Toward Insurers

July 20, 2011

From The Huffington Post: Wendell Potter–7/14/11 12:29 PM ET The insurance industry made it abundantly clear this week that it is in the driver’s seat–in both Washington and state capitals — of one of the most important vehicles created by Congress to reform the U.S. health care system. The Affordable Care Act requires the states…

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