Obama Says Theodore Roosevelt Lobbied for Health Care Reform ... Did ... - Slate
Only for certain low-income laborers. Health insurance was extremely rare in the early 20 th century. Most Americans paid for health care on a fee-for-service basis, while the completely destitute got treatment gratis at low-quality municipal ...
Obama Takes Aim At Health Insurance Companies - NPR News
President Obama traveled to Acadia University in suburban Philadelphia on Monday to make the case one more time for Congress to pass legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. He went after Republicans for their unified opposition, and ...
HHS Secretary calls for health insurance companies to publicly justify ... - News-Medical.Net
In a letter to the CEOs of UnitedHealth Group Inc., WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc., Health Care Service Corporation and CIGNA HealthCare Inc., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called on the executives to ...
Insurance Industry's Tuesday Gathering at the Ritz Being Targeted by ... - ABC News Blogs
A health insurance industry conference taking place on Tuesday at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., is being targeted by liberal health-care reform advocates. The protest, which is being organized by 50 groups including Health Care for ...
Activists picket at health insurance conference - CNN
Washington (CNN) -- Progressive activists ratcheted up the pressure for health care reform Tuesday, picketing in front of a hotel where a group of insurance industry leaders were meeting. More than 1,000 protesters -- including representatives of ...
Senate rejects health insurance changes - The Australian
THE Federal Government has attacked the Opposition for rejecting its private health insurance changes, saying it will now be tougher to return the Budget to surplus. The Senate has knocked back the Government's plan to means test the 30 per cent ...
Obama's Health Insurance Reform Offensive - DAILY KOS
... passing health ... California tried to jack up rates by nearly 40%. In my home state of Illinois rates are going up by as much as 60%. And you just heard from Leslie, who was hit with a 100% rate increase. 100%. One letter from her insurance
