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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/13/2009
Is PricewaterhouseCoopers Back Peddling From Its Own Insurance Industry Report?
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Over the weekend, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)– the lobbying arm of the health insurance industry — issued an inflammatory report warning Congress that the Baucus health care bill would increase health care costs . But critics have argued that the report is a skewed ...
Is the Insurance Industry Declaring War?
tnr.com - 10/12/2009
Is the Insurance Industry Declaring War?
— tnr.com — Over the weekend, America's Health Insurance Plans circulated a study it commissioned from PriceWaterhouseCoopers. In a memo to AHIP members, reproduced here , president Karen Ignani explained its significance: The report makes clear that ... (more) Is the Insurance Industry Declaring War?

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tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/12/2009
Health Insurance Lobby Release Report on Baucus Bill
— tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com — On October 11, 2009, America's Health Insurance Plans released a study of the Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill. The report was prepared by PriceWaterHouseCoopers(PwC). The following is a memo from Karen Ignagni, CEO of AHIP.... (more) Health Insurance Lobby Release Report on Baucus Bill
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thinkprogress.org - 10/12/2009
Insurance Industry Report Promises To Increase Premiums By 111% Under Health Reform
— thinkprogress.org — After months of publicly supporting health care reform , insurers are warning Congress that under the Baucus health care bill, “the cumulative increases in the cost of a typical family policy…will be approximately $20,700 more than it ... (more) Insurance Industry Report Promises To Increase Premiums ...

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Daily Kos:  Accounting Firm that Issue AHIP Report Clarifies Findings

Think Progress:  Republicans tout discredited insurance industry study.

The Hollywood Liberal:  Obama rips health insurance lobby as ?deceptive,? ?dishonest,? ?bogus.?

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Accounting Firm that Issue AHIP Report Clarifies Findings
Daily Kos — ... PriceWaterhouseCooper wants to reiterate a point they made in their report, to wit, they didn't consider many of the reform provisions included in reform in their report. After all of the debunking the report received yesterday, PWC issued a ...

Republicans tout discredited insurance industry study.
Think Progress — ... The industry’s very selective analysis undermines its conclusions and exposes the study as an industry attempt to protect the bottom line. An actual analysis of Congressional Budget Office data has concluded that premiums in the exchange would be ...

Obama rips health insurance lobby as ‘deceptive,’ ‘dishonest,’ ‘bogus.’
Think Progress — ... claiming that the Baucus health care bill would increase health care costs. Even the firm hired to do the analysis — PriceWaterhouseCoopers — backpedaled from the report’s conclusions. The insurance lobby’s strategy backfired as it ...

Obama rips health insurance lobby as ?deceptive,? ?dishonest,? ?bogus.?
The Hollywood Liberal — ... claiming that the Baucus health care bill would increase health care costs. Even the firm hired to do the analysis — PriceWaterhouseCoopers — backpedaled from the report’s conclusions. The insurance lobby’s strategy backfired as it ...

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Accounting Firm Admits Cost Savings Left Out Of Report Prepared For AHIP Report
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/13/2009 — Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued a statement about the audit it performed for America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) that we have been following closely. Most notable about the statement, issued late last night, is an ...
The AHIP Freak-Out: PricewaterhouseCoopers Distancing Themselves from Their Own Report
firedoglake.com 10/14/2009 — PricewaterhouseCoopers issued a puzzling statement today about the report they were commissioned to write by AHIP, the health insurance lobby, which showed through some questionable assumptions that insurance premiums would rise faster in the event ...
White House Fires Back At BlueCross Study Mimicking Debunked AHIP Report
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/14/2009 — This may not get the same amount of press attention as the damning--though ultimately flawed--AHIP/PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the impact of reform measures on the price of premiums, but White House officials are already decrying a new insurance ...
We're Not Trying to Kill Health Reform — RealClearPolitics - Homepage
Karen Ignagni, Washington Post It has been alleged that health insurers commissioned a report recently from PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of a last-ditch effort to kill health-care reform. A relentless public relations campaign has attacked the messengers -- our association, America's ...
When Politics Get Personal: The Health Reform Fallout — Swampland
By now, you know the story of the PricewaterhouseCoopers' report that came out this week. It was commissioned by the health insurance industry to show how private rates might rise under health reform. It used narrow, worst-case scenario assumptions, and ignored other parts of the reform effort ...
After Industry Report, Democratic Party Goes After Insurers — The Atlantic Politics Channel
Until now, the Democratic Party has shied away from hitting insurance companies during the health reform debate. But after after PricewaterhouseCoopers' insurance-industry-commissioned report on the Baucus health plan, that's changed. The party sent an email last night to its full supporters ...
Health Insurers On Committee Vote: We Support Reform...Just Not This Reform — The Atlantic Politics Channel
After the Senate Finance Committee passed Chairman Max Baucus's health reform plan on a 14-9 vote, America's Health Insurance Plans--hot off the controversy of the report it commissioned from PricewaterhouseCoopers--insisted that it does support comprehensive health care reform...just not the ...
Brian Orelli: Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both — TownHall Latest columns
Here's a startling report: A PriceWaterhouseCoopers study says that the current health-care reform legislation would increase a family's insurance bill by $1,700 a year in 2013 compared with not...
Price Waterhouse Walks It Back — The Moderate Voice
In the wake of the criticism over the accuracy of the AHIP-financed report from Price Waterhouse yesterday, it looks like the accounting firm is trying to do some damage control : PricewaterhouseCoopers, the authors of AHIP’s report, put out a statement last night that basically ...
Auditor Backs Away from Insurance Industry Report — Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
PricewaterhouseCoopers, who authored an insurance industry report that said health care costs would escalate if Democratic reforms were enacted, put out a statement last night, according to Politico , that basically said, "Hey, we weren't paid to evaluate the effects of the entire bill, but ...
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Throws Insurance Companies Under the Bus — Hoffmania!
Holy crap! The beeg study put out by the insurance companies - the one that says their premiums will skyrocket if reform passes - is a stretch of the truth. That was said by THE PEOPLE WHO DID THE STUDY . They're now saying they were asked to do a report on one sliver of the entire bill - ...
Taking Stock Of AHIP Report - Last 36 Hours Have Galvanized Both Sides — TPM Election Central
It's been called a "bombshell," but Democrats are saying the America's Health Insurance Plans report has helped unify the party around the health care bill(s). They say it's much easier to fight the big, bad insurance lobby that burned the White House than, for example, a Congressional Budget ...
Accounting Firm Admits Cost Savings Left Out Of Report Prepared For AHIP Report — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Talking Points Memo[/b] Accounting Firm Admits Cost Savings Left Out Of Report Prepared For AHIP Report Christina Bellantoni | October 13, 2009, 10:12AM Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued a statement about the audit it performed for America's Health Insurance ...
#Auditfail — Talking Points Memo
PricewaterhouseCoopers issues a statement conceding that its report for AHIP declaring that the Baucus bill would lead to an increase in health insurance premiums did not take into account provisions in the bill designed to lower premiums.
A Closer Look at the AHIP Report — The Glittering Eye
Keith Hennessey has taken a closer look at the report, prepared by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for healthcare insurance lobby, that I commented on yesterday . He finds both strengths and weaknesses. The greatest weakness: PWC, AHIP, and Ms. Ignani [ed. the head of AHIP] are careful to write ...