Wendell Potter, Bloomsbury Press. December 18, 2010.
As the former senior exec for CIGNA, Wendell Potter details the health insurance industry's dirty tactics at garnering both public and presidential support.
Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. March 26, 2010.
Heather Galeotti lay in a coma for nearly six months before her health insurer, Kaiser Permanente, informed her family that it would not cover $4 million in medical bills.
Eyal Press, TheNation.com AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 9, 2009.
If anti-choice pols want to assure taxpayers they won't subsidize abortion, why haven't they tried to abolish tax breaks for employer-sponsored health insurance?
William Ehart, Washington Times. November 7, 2009.
The proposed Ian's law, named after a victim of muscular dystrophy who requires an electronic device to speak would protect the most vulnerable from losing coverage.
RH Reality Check, RH Reality Check AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. October 21, 2009.
After insurance agent Chris Turner was raped, she went under cover to find out if her treatment would make her next insurance policy an impossible dream.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 14, 2009.
It's pretty unusual for a Senate Majority Leader to testify as a witness at a committee hearing, so I was glad to see Harry Reid (D-Nev.) make an exception today on a key issue.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. September 22, 2009.
The Baucus proposal includes a tax intended to dupe the public into thinking it soaks the rich. In truth, it would stick it to millions in the middle class.
AKMuckraker, The Mudflats AlterNet: PEEK. September 21, 2009.
Doctors are in the business of saving lives from disease, and illness and injury, but they shouldn't have to be in the business of saving lives from business.
Victor Zapanta, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. September 3, 2009.
The complaint comes in response to the insurance companies' practice of actively encouraging employees to engage in anti-health care reform political activity.