commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 28 days ago
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On pages 20-22 of the Healthcare Reform act, it makes it illegal for insurance companies to "dump" high-risk enrollees into the public pool. The language of the bill gives "dumping" a pretty broad definition (they only have to be "encouraged to disenroll") so you can just imagine cost overruns ...
Obama Attacks Health Insurance Industry
businessweek.com 10/18/2009 — President Barack Obama is no longer making nice with the health insurance industry. In his weekly radio and internet address on Saturday he harshly attacked insurers for trying to block health care reform efforts, charging the industry with "filling ...
The Insurance Industry Strikes Back
prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com 10/15/2009 — During much of the health care debate this year, the insurance industry has been the dog that didn't bark. But with the emergence of specific legislation from the Senate Finance Committee, that has changed.
House Dems move forward on health bill —
First Read 29 days ago
From NBC's Mike ViqueiraHouse leaders hope to have their health-care bill on the floor late next week, perhaps Thursday, according Democratic Rep. George Miller, chairman of the education and labor committee and close confidant of Speaker Nancy ...