Republicans Apologize to BP

June 18, 2010 by siteadmin · Comment
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Health Insurers Bilked Patients Of Billions Of Dollars: Senate Report

June 25, 2009 by siteadmin · Comment
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“… a scheme by health insurers to defraud consumers by manipulating reimbursement rates.”

Senate Panel Hears of Health Insurers’ Wrongs, Ex-Insider Testifies to ‘Fear Tactics’

By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Health insurers have forced consumers to pay billions of dollars in medical bills that the insurers themselves should have paid, according to a report released yesterday by the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee.

The report was part of a multi-pronged assault on the credibility of private insurers by Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). It came at a time when Rockefeller, President Obama and others are seeking to offer a public alternative to private health plans as part of broad health-care reform legislation. Health insurers are doing everything they can to block the public option.
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Big Oil’s prize is America’s downfall

August 21, 2008 by siteadmin · Comment
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It’s getting harder and harder to remain deluded. With each day comes new facts to drag our heads out of the sand.

Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that four Western oil giants were on the verge of signing no-bid contracts that would return them to Iraq, the third-most bountiful petroleum playground on the planet. It was the kind of news that big oil lives for.

Giddy executives singing “Oh Happy Day” could be heard in the corporate offices of Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP, which had been shut out of Iraq for three and a half decades.

We also learned this week that a group of American advisers, led by a team from the State Department, played a key role in drawing up the contracts between the companies and the Iraqi government. Chevron and several smaller oil companies also got contracts.

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