Topic: Karen Ignagni

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 ...
A year ago, with the markets and the economy in meltdown, the SmartMoney Power 30 was full of the usual cast of government giants and Wall Street heavyweights: Angela Braly, CEO of Wellpoint (WLP:57.54,+0.91,+1.61%), the country's largest health insurer, often emphasizes her ...
Chief insurance industry lobbyist sees health care drive 'won or lost' in AugustAugust will be a make-or-break month for the drive to revamp health care, as members of Congress use the recess to either sell the need for an overhaul to voters ...

Health Overhaul Odds Just Went Up–Maybe By a Lot

The odds that American's health-care system will be overhauled this year just went up-and may have gone up by a lot.. Today's announcement by President Barack Obama that a broad coalition of big private-sector health players-insurance companies, hospitals, drug makers-have pledged to ...