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5/15/2012
By Judy Dugan
The rest of the country is happily watching gasoline prices sink as the latest bubble in oil crude prices springs a leak. Except California. Nationally, gasoline prices are down more than 15 cents a gallon over the last month, according to the daily AAA fuel gauge. California drivers are still cringing, with prices up more than 15 cents a...
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5/12/2012
Daniel Palay
Next week we will be turning in the signatures for our ballot petition to force health insurance companies to justify their rates and get permission before instituting their rate hikes.
Download, sign and return in the mail by the end of the weekend to be part of the signature turn-in or forever hold your peace.
This short video preview of the...
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5/7/2012
Jamie Court
Two years ago, as federal health reform lay on death’s door, CEO Angela Braly, head of Blue Cross’s parent company Wellpoint, spit on beleaguered patients. She sat through poignant Congressional testimony from customers whose lives were being ruined by spiraling premium hikes, then Braly testified that the public outrage was "a...
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5/3/2012
By Judy Dugan
This year's report from the Commonwealth Fund on the cost of U.S. health care compared to the rest of the developed world whould be a shock if we hadn't seen it over and over. We pay far more, and aren't healthier overall because of it. The report issued this week finds that the U.S. manages to spend $8,000 a year per person on...
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5/1/2012
By Carmen Balber
One million Californians will be slammed today with health insurance rate hikes as high as 20%. Consumer Watchdog Campaign has a solution.
Watch this short, funny movie trailer about an alternative future with no rate hikes, and share it with your friends.
Health insurance price hikes recur more often than Groundhog Day -- Spring, Summer...
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4/23/2012
By Daniel Palay
In just one week, ONE MILLION Californians will have their health care rates unceremoniously hiked by up to 20%. For many of these Californians, this will represent the 2nd or 3rd hike in less than two years. With insurance companies turning record profits quarter in and quarter out, it's time to stand up and tell them that we are sick...
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4/23/2012
Laurel Kaufer
My name is Laurel Kaufer and I’m a Consumer Watchdog member. I am also one of the one million Californians who will be hit with a health insurance rate hike on May 1st.
Are you one of the May Million facing rate hikes of up to 20%?
As a self-employed, single mom, I’ve struggled for more than a decade to balance the cost of health...
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4/19/2012
By Laura Antonini
Lately, California’s auto insurers have been slipping unjustified service fees onto bills – even when policyholders don’t use the service.
Take the “installment fee” or “finance charge” for example. Nearly all the big auto insurance outfits in California -- Auto Club, GEICO, State Farm, Mercury,...
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4/14/2012
By John M. Simpson
Around 50 representatives of various Internet stakeholders squared off for three days in Washington DC this past week as the W3C (World Web Consortium) Tracking Protection Working Group tried to set a standard for what Do Not Track means.
Progress was made, but a huge gulf still exists between the online industry's proposals and those from...
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4/3/2012
By John M. Simpson
Consumer Watchdog's animated satirical video, "Supercharge" has just won a prestigious "Pollie" award from the American Association of Political Consultants.
The association is made up of political consultants, media consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, corporate public affairs officers, professors, fund-raisers,...
