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NEWS ABOUT: America's Health Insurance Plans

America's Health Insurance Plans stories: 5 news summaries

How Insurers Got Their Way With Reform

Early, sophisticated lobbying effort paid off for health care industry

Oct 26, 09 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though the final bill is still being hammered out, health reform appears to have given the insurance industry most of its wishes. Everyone will be required to buy insurance, there won’t be any limits on premiums, and any public option will likely be weak. They pulled off these anticipated... More »

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health insurance • lobbying • health care reform • America's Health Insurance Plans

investigation

Insurers Drop Rape Victims Who Take HIV Meds

Assaulted women locked out of health care

Oct 22, 09 11:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sexual assault victims prescribed precautionary HIV/AIDS meds risk being denied health insurance—because they have a pre-existing condition. The vast majority never develop the disease, but many have lost their insurance altogether, the Huffington Post reports. Others have been denied mental health care for PTSD that arose after they were... More »

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health insurance • AIDS • HIV • rape • HIV/AIDS • sexual assault • women's issues • health insurance industry • pre-existing condition • America's Health Insurance Plans

HEALTH CARE REFORM

 Dour Industry Report Backfires 

Dems, GOP alike have hard time believing Hail Mary predicting higher costs

Oct 13, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The health insurance industry report presented yesterday that predicts the reform bill will do little to stop rising costs appears to have backfired. Dems are up in arms at the timing and content of the “misleading and harmful” attack from their erstwhile ally in the effort. Sen. Jay Rockefeller... More »

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Congress • health care costs • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Karen Ignagni • health insurance industry • America's Health Insurance Plans

analysis

Industry Report Distorts Health Reform Cost

Insurance firms' numbers blindside Baucus bill's backers

Oct 12, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new report that says the Senate Finance Committee’s reform bill would raise private insurance premiums is riddled with troubling exceptions, writes Jonathan Cohn. The report, commissioned by America's Health Insurance Plans, estimates the costs of premiums over time if the bill is implemented, but it doesn’t take... More »

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health insurance • insurance companies • Senate Finance Committee • health insurance premiums • health care reform • Max Baucus • US Senate • America's Health Insurance Plans

Insurance Group Bashes Baucus Bill With Report

White House betrayed by 'hatchet job' predicting cost hikes

Oct 12, 09 7:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House is steamed this morning over a report, sponsored by the insurance industry, saying the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill would cause premiums and costs to rise. The report was commissioned by America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry group that has until now supported reform... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Obama administration • America's Health Insurance Plans

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