by Andrew McGuire | Sep 28, 2011 | News
by nyceve As the debate played out during the contentious summer of 2009 before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, many were deeply concerned that the insurance industry would escalate its war against the American people. We feared and predicted even more...
by Sylvia Moore | Sep 9, 2011 | News
When California Senate Health Committee Chair Ed Hernandez’s foot dragging earlier this year nearly killed the single payer bill, SB 810, outright, I wondered whether health insurance industry lobbyists had gotten to him. Hernandez, a Democrat, eventually voted...
by Andrew McGuire | Jul 5, 2011 | News
by nyceve There is an immensely important vote on Wednesday in the health committee of the California State Senate. It’s a vote on AB 52 to regulate health insurers, and give the insurance commissioner the ability to review, approve, deny or modify excessive...
by Sylvia Moore | May 27, 2011 | News
While ordinary Californians are tightening their belts amid a bad economy and burdensome health insurance costs, executives for the state’s health insurance companies are drenched in money. Under a new state law, the companies publicly disclosed the salaries of...
by Andrew McGuire | Sep 8, 2010 | News
We are yet another family driven to bankruptcy from medical expenses. My son, who is 14, developed Tourette’s syndrome when he was 10. It took over a year-and-a half to diagnose, because Kaiser insisted it was anxiety and a personality disorder. After months of huge...