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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White House asserts executive privilege in EPA dispute

June 27, 2008 by siteadmin · Comment
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President Bush asserted executive privilege Friday to withhold documents from a congressional investigation into whether he pressured EPA to weaken decisions on smog and greenhouse gases. White House officials notified a House committee of the rare assertion about 15 minutes before the committee was to vote on holding the head of the EPA and a White House budget official in contempt of Congress for not providing the documents. Full Story

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