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Here's a perfect example of why a non-medical company with no relationship to the patient should never be allowed access to patient information without permission first - as a ...

A bill passed its second California Senate committee this week that would give an ever-wider circle of companies access to Californians' private medical information. SB 1096 by Senator Ron Calderon would allow pharmacies to give...

It's amazing how fast Gov. Schwarzenegger reacts when it's his wife, Maria Shriver, whose medical records are being snooped. "This kind of practice has been happening all over the state, wherever there's celebrities involved" including himself, Schwarzenegger said at an unrelated news conference today. He reiterated that his administration is "working with UCLA," where the leaks were uncovered by an excellent LA Times investigation--and hadn't even been reported  to state regulators.

Allstate made a surprise decision to release internal documents about claims handling procedures that they've been fighting to keep secret in court for over a decade. The documents...

Add number 572 to the list of reasons why people don’t believe the government is working for them any more.

Deborah Platt Majoras, chair of the Federal Trade Commission and one of the country’s top consumer...

I don't know which was worse: Repeatedly being told "we realize your time is important" as I waited for a live agent or the regular recycling of messages touting the very services I had already purchased and was calling about....

For a generation, regulation has been a dirty word in politics unless it had the prefix "de-" attached to it.  I think the ...