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    Health Insurance Industry Fearmonger Blows Whistle on “Astroturf” Opposition to Health Care Reform

    Jan 12, 2011 Health Insurance Industry Fearmonger Blows Whistle on “Astroturf” Opposition to Health Care Reform

    ” … Over a period of two years, from 2007 to 2009, Potter says insurance companies and HMOs spent $586 million, derived from customers’ premiums, in political contributions and lobbying expenses, most of it to attack health-care reform. … “ Wendell Potter’s Defection From Health-Care Industry PR Former Knoxvillian

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    Video: Convicted GOP Fraud & Health Care Astroturfer Rick Scott Launches Bid For Florida Gov … Directs Contributions to his Investment Firm …

    May 2, 2010 Video: Convicted GOP Fraud & Health Care Astroturfer Rick Scott Launches Bid For Florida Gov … Directs Contributions to his Investment Firm …

    By Lee Fang | Think Progress | Apr 13th, 2010 Last year, Rick Scott emerged as the public face of the right-wing forces dedicated to stopping health reform. As first reported by the Wonk Room, Scott hired the same Republican public relations firm that managed the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

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    Note to Media: The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a Right-Wing Group with Fringe Views

    Apr 5, 2010 Note to Media: The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a Right-Wing Group with Fringe Views

    by Terry Krepel Media Matters | March 31, 2010   The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is getting some attention this week for filing a lawsuit against the federal government over the health care reform bill, claiming that requiring people to buy health insurance is unconstitutional (a dubious claim) and, in the

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    Health Insurers may Lose Antitrust Exemption

    Oct 21, 2009

    WASHINGTON (AP) – A House committee has voted to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws as senators announced plans to take the same step. … STORY

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    Harvard Study Links Annual 45,000 U.S. Deaths to Lack of Insurance/Republicans Ridicule the Uninsured at Town Halls

    Sep 17, 2009 Harvard Study Links Annual 45,000 U.S. Deaths to Lack of Insurance/Republicans Ridicule the Uninsured at Town Halls

    Study Links 45,000 U.S. Deaths to Lack of Insurance By Susan Heavey September 17, 2009 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers

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    Health Care for All

    Aug 13, 2009

    Helen ThomasSF GateAugust 12, 2009 It’s all so sad. Well-organized conservatives have launched a full-scale attack on health care reform. And they appear to be winning — for now. Their victory strategy involves deliberate distortions of the truth and scare tactics. Under the plans Congress is considering, a government bureaucrat will come

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    THE FACTS ABOUT THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY

    Jul 2, 2009

    by paradocs2 http://watchingthewatchers.org/article/16637/facts-health-insurance-industryJun 07, 2009 Most people are unaware how similar the major health insurers are to our failed Wall Street firms.They are corporate cash cows and have virtually no fiduciary responsibility and few activities for protecting or improving health or the health care system.They will devote their vast resources to prevent

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    Drilling Down on the Facts in McCain’s Speech

    Oct 6, 2008

    By LARRY ROHTERthecaucus.blogs.nytimes.comOctober 6, 2008 Speaking in Albuquerque on Monday, Senator John McCain attacked Senator Barack Obama on several fronts that by now have become familiar. But many of his charges relating to the economic meltdown, taxation and health care contained inaccuracies or exaggerations of his own position or Mr. Obama’s. For

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    McCain: I’ll Make Health Care As Deregulated As Banking

    Sep 20, 2008

    It seems that before John McCain became the Scourge of Wall Street (i.e., all times before September 18, 2008 or so) he was such an enthusiast about financial market deregulation that he was bragging about his plan to make the health care system as awesome as the financial system. Here’s what he

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    Feds block 9/11 health care money

    May 16, 2008 Feds block 9/11 health care money

    By Julie ShapiroDowntown ExpressMay 16 – 22, 2008 The federal government is backing out of a requirement to treat Downtown residents, office workers and students for 9/11-related illnesses, saying it needs more time to study the problem. Before providing any funding to people other than first responders, the Department of Health and

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    The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 35: Idiot Wind – Return of The Mob

    Dec 27, 2006 The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 35: Idiot Wind – Return of The Mob

    BY ALEX CONSTANTINE “Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head … You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies … “One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin’ around your eyes … “Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb, Blowing

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