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Excerpt from Road to Reform California Healthline
(10/28/2009)
On the eve of the expected unveiling of the U.S. House health care proposal, Congressional leaders are taking a closer, questioning look at the Congressional Budget Office’s cost estimates. -
HHS: Insurance Companies Encourage Employees to "Revoke Sick People's Health Coverage"
(10/28/2009)
You might have known that insurers can deny health coverage based on preexisting medical conditions, but here’s something else to worry about: They can take away the coverage you thought you had when actually need it, the government says. -
Health insurer profits even when denying coverage
(10/28/2009)
Altadena resident Mike Freas was twice rejected for health coverage by Anthem Blue Cross because of a preexisting condition, forcing him into a costly state-run program intended to serve as the insurer of last resort for people turned away by the private sector. Yet now he finds himself in the strange position of sending Anthem a check for about $500 each month. Why? Because it turns out that Anthem Blue Cross also quietly serves as the administrator of the state insurance plan. -
WellPoint Says Reform Will Cost Customers
(10/23/2009)
It seems like WellPoint (despite its obvious bias in the reform debate) has some interesting statistics to share. -
CNBC Calls Out WellPoint CEO For Lying About How Much Money It Makes Off Its Consumers
(09/23/2009)
Today at the Clinton Global Initiative conference, CNBC hosts Mark Haines and Maria Bartiromo interviewed WellPoint CEO Angela Braly on the current health reform debate. -
Wellpoint's Shenanigans
(09/21/2009)
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that WellPoint, the nation’s largest insurer, is calling its members “to gauge the public’s appetite for overhauling health care – and to enlist, critics say, a grass-roots army to voice concerns about the sweeping proposals developing on Capitol Hill.” -
Health Insurance Executives Unaware Of Medical Bankruptcy Crisis
(09/18/2009)
Yesterday, the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy held “the second session of a two-part hearing entitled, ‘Between You and Your Doctor: the Bureaucracy of Private Health Insurance.’” During the hearing, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) asked executives of the nation’s largest health insurance companies if they were aware of medical bankruptcies. -
Insurance giant attacks Democratic plans
(08/27/2009)
The California insurer Anthem Blue Cross -- a subsidiary of the insurance giant WellPoint -- today blasted out an email to its customers, attacking the Democrats' health reform plans and asking customers to help fight them.
