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News Release
3/12/2012
Posted by Carmen Balber
Santa Monica – Health care generated $35.7 million in lobbyist spending in 2011, more than any other industry in California, and Kaiser was the largest spender at $3.5 million, according to a California Healthline analysis of state records released today. A ballot initiative proposed by consumer advocates would prohibit insurance companies...
Blog Post
11/26/2011
Posted by Jamie Court
The Los Angeles Times coverage today of CW founder Harvey Rosenfield and our proposed ballot measure to make health insurance companies publicly justify their rates before raising them drew an angry response from the health insurance industry.
What does the Insurance Rate Public Justification and Accountability Act do and how can you help?...
News Story
11/11/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
Debate over the controversial issue of health care rate regulation came roaring back midweek.
That’s when Consumer Watchdog, the Los Angeles advocacy group that makes health plans bristle, announced it has filed a proposed ballot initiative with the California Attorney General that would regulate health care premiums.
The initiative...
Blog Post
11/9/2011
Posted by Jamie Court
We just filed our ballot initiative to make health insurance companies open their books and publicly justify, under penalty of perjury, proposed rate changes before they take effect.
If we collect 504,760 signatures to qualify the measure, California voters will have the opportunity to vote on The Insurance Rate Public Justification And...
News Story
10/6/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
An intense political flap has left one of the year’s most important pieces of legislation stalled on the Senate floor and the removal of a consumer advocacy group’s disputed TV spot targeting the chair of the Senate Health Committee.
The Democrat-on-Democrat fight between Senate moderates and the rest of the caucus also raised...
Blog Post
9/29/2011
Posted by Jamie Court
The Kaiser Family Foundation reported this week that health insurance premiums spiked 9% last year and surpassed $15,000 per year for a family of four. Employees are paying 168% more for their employer-sponsored health insurance than 13 years ago (vs 38% for inflation). Yet another painful reminder of the need to rein in California's...
Blog Post
9/26/2011
Posted by Jamie Court
Thanks to your support, we ran the television advertisement about California State Senator Ed Hernandez about 300 times during the past week.
Your vote was overwhelmingly in support of continuing the advertisement, and with your help we made an important point. Patients should matter more in Sacramento and the health insurance complex should...
News Story
9/26/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
A consumer advocacy group took on the chair of the Senate Health Committee at the end of last week, and it has stirred up Sacramento.
The ad was in reaction to the legislative decision to delay a vote on AB 52 by Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) and Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), the proposal to regulate health insurance rate increases....
News Story
9/23/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
In these pages last week, we looked at recent attack ads against Sen. Ed Hernandez over his position on Assembly Bill 52, a bill that would mandate state regulation of health insurance rates.
We talked to Consumer Watchdog, the group that paid for the television ads and is demanding Hernandez step down from his chair of the Senate Health...
Video
9/22/2011
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Consumer Watchdog is running this TV ad in the district of CA State Senator Ed Hernandez after the revelation that he has received more than $350,000 from the states' largest health care plan, Kaiser, while chairing the CA Senate Health Committee. The video shows his insensitivity to a constituent who could not afford his health insurance...
