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Health Insurers Spent $38 Million Lobbying Congress in 2009

Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. January 25, 2010.

These are the same companies that fought hard against the public option.

Wellpoint Sues Maine to Guarantee Their Profits

Robert Greenwald, October 5, 2009.

Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn't enough for WellPoint, the nation's largest insurance company.

Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous Insurance CEOs

AlterNet: Health and WellnessSeptember 24, 2009.

Health industry CEOs make more in compensation than any industry in America.

Citizens Confront Wellpoint: Giant Insurer a Poster-Child for Abusive Practices

Peter Dreier, Huffington Post. September 22, 2009.

The action is part of a wave of protests sweeping over big insurers opposing health reform.

Fight back against health insurance lies

Robert Greenwald, AlterNet: Politics. August 6, 2009.

What does UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year?

Doctors' Association Sues Insurers for Health Care Price-Fixing

David Rosenfeld, Miller-McCune Magazine. March 27, 2009.

The suit accuses WellPoint of artificially lowering payments to doctors and overcharging patients for millions of dollars in unpaid claims.