WellPoint Inc., one of the nation’s top five private health insurers, is looking for loopholes and play corporate games to keep corporate profits high, a consumer group charges. The group, Consumer Watchdog, is calling for the Obama administration to launch an investigation of WellPoint, which is the parent firm of Anthem Blue Cross, a California insurer that recently sought to jack up rates nearly 40 percent even in the face of soaring profits. That increase raised the ire of...
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Specter Opposes EFCA, But Pa. AFL-CIO Picks Him Over Sestak In Senate Primary Battle
The members of Pennsylvania’s AFL-CIO are endorsing longtime incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter over Rep. Joe Sestak in that state’s contested May 18 Democratic primary election, despite the fact that Specter opposes one of the labor union’s biggest legislative priorities. “In our opinion Senator Arlen Specter is the strongest advocate and supporter for good jobs, fair trade policies, workers’ rights and quality affordable healthcare for all. He is a proven leader who has stood with working families when the chips...
Secret Webcam Surveillance Of Pa. Students Leads To Call For Stronger Privacy Law
Allegations that school officials in Pennsylvania secretly watched students at home via webcams installed on school-issued laptop computers proves that Congress must update federal eavesdropping laws to cover unauthorized video surveillance, an attorney representing an Internet freedom organization told senators. Kevin Bankston delivered his message to members of a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee in the same Philadelphia courthouse where the parents of high school student Blake Robbins filed a class action lawsuit alleging that school administrators secretly used Internet-enabled...
Senate On Recess, Thousands To Begin Losing Unemployment Benefits, Labor Secretary Warns
About 38,000 out-of-work Americans will begin losing their unemployment benefits starting in the second week of April because the Senate recessed through April 12 without approving a needed extension of those benefits, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis warns. The Senate adjourned for its annual Easter recess Friday, failing once again to extend unemployment insurance payments and COBRA benefits for jobless Americans. Last week, action on the matter was blocked by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Just weeks ago, another Republican, Sen....
April Fools Came Early This Year
The fools in this case being our national media. “victim” NotSoBreitbart Listen to Joseph Pulitzer: “A free press should always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice and corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy for the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare,” – Joseph Pulitzer (That “prize” guy.) I guess that one’s been tossed overboard. The reporting on this event...
ANALYSIS: In Bay State’s Political Odd Couple, Republican Scott Brown Is The Odd Man Out
Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation ended last week, dominated by the enactment of healthcare reform as it was, by gathering at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center on Friday afternoon. But in a vivid illustration of just how the political reality of its has changed, just one of the Bay State’s U.S. senators, Democrat John Kerry, came to talk to reporters about how Massachusetts will benefit from the new law that make the lives of those in the...
Saying ‘America’s Established Social Safety Net’ At Risk, Judiciary Chairman Defends Healthcare Reform Against State Lawsuits
Citing the oath the president and members of Congress take to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee defended the new healthcare reform law from mushrooming court challenges that seek to overturn the hard-fought legislative victory. More than a dozen conservative state attorneys general, including those in Virginia and Utah, are filing suit in an attempt to prevent the reform legislation President Obama signed into law this week from...
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