The Insurance Industry's Lethal Bottom Line -- and Sen. Al Franken's Solution

Huffington Post by Wendell Potter | Dec. 6, 2009 (News)

(Blog Post) Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is now leading a group including Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) to introduce an amendment that would go further by requiring that 90 percent of the money consumers spend on health insurance premiums go directly to health care costs Full Story »

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 by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Dec. 7, 2009

The health care reform bill now being debated in the Senate must include a provision, such as that proposed by Sen. Franken, that sets a minimum medical loss ratio to keep insurers from gouging consumers and leaving patients without the care they need.

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