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• Durbin goes to bat in Senate for SIU baseball coach

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 624
  Callahan WASHINGTON — Throughout the months of health care debate, Sen. Dick Durbin , D-Ill., has told stories of constituents fighting insurance companies. On Monday, Durbin shared the story of Southern Illinois University baseball coach Dan Callahan . Speaking on the Senate floor, Durbin implored ...
  2 days ago

• Howie Hawkins arrested for protesting at Wellpoints offices

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Shackled Howie Hawkins appears in Syracuse City Court Hawkins was arrested around 1 p.m. Wednesday by Syracuse police outside the office of National Government Services at 400 S. Salina St., which houses the care claims office of Wellpoint Inc., a large health insurer. Hawkins said he was trying to enter the ...
  4 days ago

• Another Great Swindle: Doctors, Hospitals, Pharma as Much to Blame as Insurers

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  While the health insurance industry’s immoral, amoral and, sometimes, illegal treatment of policyholders is an appropriate prime culprit and target in the current push for reform, the fact is that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  5 days ago

• Was I hired to stand in the way of health care reform?

  
  Heartless Bastard — Authority: 138
  Hi, Im Andy and I did all the damage I could being a spokesjerk for Blue Cross Blue Shield. Now its time to move on to the next hugely irresponsible, profit-driven monopoly. Tell me where I should work next: http://facebook.com/sickforprofit ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  5 days ago

• Green Party Candidate Hawkins Arrested During Health Care Protest

  
  Green Party New York — Authority: 118
  Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins was arrested Wednesday afternoon during a peaceful protest in Syracuse, NY. About a dozen people gathered outside of the Wellpoint/Excellus offices to protest some of the company’s practices. Syracuse Police say Hawkins was arrested for a trespassing violation. They say he stood ...
  5 days ago

• Cramer on BloggingStocks: Stunning elections put health care names back in play

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Market matters , Stocks to Buy , Cramer on BloggingStocks From TheStreet.com Network Health Insurers Dont Deserve Vitriol Googles Kill Count Grows TheStreet.coms Jim Cramer says stocks like WellPoint are buys again because the months of rhetoric will end. Buy WellPoint ...
  1 week ago

• Sit-in for single payer at Pelosis office in SF

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Via email, Mobilize for Health Care : Dear Friend, CALL PELOSI NOW! (415) 556-4862 and (202) 225-0100 There are 8 people sitting in RIGHT NOW in Nancy Pelosis Office in San Francisco! They are not leaving until they get an answer to their demands! Their demands are that the Kucinich amendment MUST be in the ...
  1 week ago

• (MOH) Molina Healthcare Falls Short of Expectations

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 506
  Molina Healthcare Inc. ( MOH ) reported third-quarter earnings of 33 cents per share, which was well below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 53 cents. The company earned 60 cents in the year-ago quarter. The decline in profit for the quarter was attributable to the higher operating expenses coupled with losses from the ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin launches insurers’ pricing practices investigation

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 147
  Four major yet private health insurance companies are being asked to justify to a U.S. Senate committee their pricing policies and to provide detailed information on any employee or officer who makes $5 million or more a year. The investigation, launched today by Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, comes after small business ...
  1 week ago

• Senate Pressing Insurers on the Amount of Premiums They Spend on Care

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Senator Rockefeller heads the Commerce Committee.
  1 week ago

• (ESRX) Express Scripts’ Earnings Report is In-Line With Forecasts

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 506
  Express Scripts Inc. ( ESRX ) announced third-quarter earnings of 81 cents per share, in-line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate as well as last year’s profit. Revenues, however, increased 3% to $5.6 billion with product revenues increasing 3.1% to $5.5 billion. The company reports revenues from two segments: ...
  1 week ago

• WellPoint Policyholders Can Expect Double Digit Increases

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 769
  Third quarter financial results for WellPoint are available, and it doesn’t look good for policyholders. WLP reports 3Q profits of $1.53, significantly better than the expected $1.37 . The number of persons covered continued to decline, down 1.5 million, 4.5% in the last year, largely from unemployment. Despite ...
  1 week ago

• Earnings highlights: Aflac, Avon, BP, Hershey, Kellogg, Nintendo, P&G, Sprint ...

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Daimler (DAI) , Sprint Nextel Corp (S) , AFLAC Inc (AFL) , Avon Products (AVP) , Kellogg Co (K) , Hershey Co (HSY) , Procter and Gamble (PG) , BP p.l.c. ADS (BP) , McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP) , General Dynamics Corp (GD) , Nintendo (NTDOY) Here are some highlights from last weeks earnings ...
  1 week ago

• Who Ya Gonna Call? Filibuster!

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 468
  From Joe Conason at Salon : If Democrats are disappointed by Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster any healthcare reform bill that includes a public option, they shouldn’t be. Despite all of his past promises to support universal healthcare, nothing was more predictable than the Connecticut senator’s ...
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• ObamaCare Has Already Driven Up Private Health Insurance Premiums

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  The Obama Administration has been attacking perfectly credible studies commissioned by AHIP , BCBSA , and WellPoint explaining why the proposed “reform” will drive up premiums for privately insured Americans. Yet, let’s not lose track of the fact that the Administration and the Congress have already taken ...
  1 week ago

• Under House Bill Small Business Premiums Will Increase

  
  BusinessTrends Blog — Authority: 126
  In a new report on the impact of health care reform on premium costs , WellPoint found that legislation with provisions similar to those unveiled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on October 29 will increase costs for small business owners and the self-employed. The insurance company found that in the fourteen states ...
  1 week ago

• Cramer: WellPoint A Defensive Stock

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 647
  “Third leg is very controversial but we don’t shy from controversy on this show. It’s WellPoint, now what is WellPoint, WellPoint is the HMO that reported an absolute monster yesterday quarter. Earning $1.53 per share or $1.78 excluding one time items. 16 cents or 41 cents higher than the street...
  1 week ago

• Cramer: WellPoint A Defensive Stock

  
  The Razor's Edge — Authority: 132
  “Third leg is very controversial but we don’t shy from controversy on this show. It’s WellPoint, now what is WellPoint, WellPoint is the HMO that reported an absolute monster yesterday quarter. Earning $1.53 per share or $1.78 excluding one time items.  16 cents or 41 cents higher than the street was ...
  1 week ago

• Aetna, Aflac, WellPoint rise following earnings releases

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Earnings reports , Aetna Inc (AET) , AFLAC Inc (AFL) , MetLife Inc. (MET) Even as the battle over health care reform rages on Capitol Hill, we are seeing a flurry of third quarter reports from insurers. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET ) reported Thursday that its third-quarter profit rose 18% from a year ...
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• Report: Bayhs Wife Made Millions As Board Member For Health Insurer

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 782
  Yesterday, Sen. Evan Bayh joined his colleague Joe Lieberman in suggesting that he may not oppose health-care reform, citing concerns about the deficit. Bayh has long been one of the more conservative members of the Democratic caucus. But is his stance also affected by the fact that his wife has reportedly earned ...
  1 week ago

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