Topic: America'S Health Insurance Plans

Insurers aren't supporting efforts to repeal health reform

The man who will become speaker of the House in January 2011, Ohio Republican John Boehner, has pledged to repeal the health system reform law. One reason was summed up by Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, professor of public health sciences at the University ...
MARCH 26, 2010This Week in Health Care Reform Health care reform legislation passed the House this week on a party-line vote. Late Sunday night, House Democrats approved the Senate health care reform package, sending the legislation to President Obama for his signature. ...

Power Outage

Last month Karen Ignagni held a conference call with reporters to announce the release of a new study commissioned by her lobby, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Ignagni and her lobby are unused to being on the losing side of the political ...
Washington has been waiting for the health insurance lobby to get nasty. The report, which was released a day early to The Washington Post, elicited predictably sharp responses from the White House and from Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., whose Senate Finance committee ...

Ire Over Insurance

The White House may be wavering in its support for a government-run health insurance plan, an idea that private insurers loathe. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., sent a letter to 52 private insurers--including Aetna ( AET - news - people ...

Health Industry Wary, Divided Over Sweeping Reform

As Democrats gear up to debate sweeping health care reform, interest groups are divided, even among those that nominally represent the same constituencies. The American Medical Association and America's Health Insurance Plans declined comment ....
Big health insurers have punched up lobbying spending this year as the debate over a potential overhaul of the nation's health care system heats up in Washington.The five largest private insurers and the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans spent a total ...

Health care leaders pledge $2 trillion in spending cuts

A diverse and influential group of organizations representing physicians, hospitals, insurers, drug manufacturers, medical device companies and service workers pledged to work together to reduce national health care spending by $2 trillion or more over the next decade in an effort to ...