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Tag Archives: health insurance
Health Care Meets Shark Week!
Playing off Discovery Channel’s much-watched Shark Week, MoveOn.org Political Action launched a video likening health insurance companies to these predators of the sea. ⬐ Click to expand/collapse the full transcript ⬏ expand(document.getElementById(‘tet881265935′));expand(document.getElementById(‘tetlink881265935′)) Announcer: They are enormous and powerful. They prey on our weaknesses, trying to separate the healthy from the …
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Broken Record on Record-Breaking Profits
Last week we posted an item on President Obama’s recent claim that health insurance companies were logging record profits. Not true, we discovered, at least not for the largest publicly traded companies. Some of them weren’t even close. Expect to keep hearing the assertion, however, in a series of seven …
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Dying on a Wait List?
Perhaps the most emotional of the health care ads we’ve seen in recent months is the one featuring Canadian Shona Holmes, who warns of the dangers of a government-run health care system. Holmes tells viewers: "I survived a brain tumor. But if I’d relied on my government, I’d be dead. …
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CPR Administers Bad Facts, Again
The latest ad from the group Conservatives for Patients’ Rights claims that “new rules could hike your health insurance premiums 95 percent.” That’s misleading. The claim in the ad refers to only 5 percent of Americans who have health insurance – those who buy it on their own. The claim comes from an analysis by a group that advocates for …
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Tagged Conservatives for Patients' Rights, health care, health insurance
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Insurance Industry: Spinning the Polls
Harry and Louise may have switched sides, but that’s no excuse, in our book, for the health insurance industry to resort to misrepresenting polls as it argues against inclusion of a public plan in health care overhaul proposals on Capitol Hill. Karen Ignani, the head of industry trade group America’s …
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Canadian Straw Man
Two ads from related independent groups make claims about an overhaul of the health care system, saying Congress wants a government-run health care system. One ad claims that “Washington wants to bring Canadian-style health care to the U.S.” But the health care bills moving through Congress don’t call for a single-payer system like Canada’s …
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Tagged american recovery and reinvestment act, Americans for Prosperity, health care, health insurance, patients first, patients united now
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Readers Talk Back on Insurance Costs
We received a number of e-mails after we said, in our article "Pushing for a Public Plan," that "the average monthly payment for workers with employer-sponsored coverage is … $280 for a family policy." It seems that a lot of you weren’t satisfied with the finding, which is from the …
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Tagged government run health care, health care, health insurance
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The ‘Real’ Uninsured
Former Sen. Fred Thompson said on “Meet the Press” that “the 45 million … figure of uninsured is probably about twice the real number of people who can’t afford insurance or don’t have access to it really.” He’s not the only one saying that the number is inflated. We find …
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Tagged Census, fred thompson, health care, health insurance, illegal immigrants, meet the press, sunday morning talkshows
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