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Health Care Plans

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Regence BlueShield Hit With $100,000 Fine for Screwing Over Women

    ​Wouldn't it be cool if we lived in a state where markets were allowed to be truly free? Where we could choose whichever health insurance plan best fit our needs? And where insurers could choose not to provide legally-mandated contraceptive coverage to women without fear of bureaucrats slappin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Mike Kreidler, State Insurance Commssioner, Lashes Out at Premera for Trying to Hide Financial Data

    ​ Update: Premera says Kreidler has got his facts wrong. Details after the jump. State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is pissed. The commissioner has been pushing a bill through the legislature that would allow public access to financial information filed with his office by health insur ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2010

    Bartell's and the Drug War

    The Seattle chain cuts its Medicaid losses.

  • News

    June 30, 2004

    How Broad Was Fraud?

    While UW Medical was ripping off Medicare, say whistle-blowers, private insurers and patients were overbilled, too.

  • Music

    February 5, 2003

    Rhymes with Seltzer

    While UW Medical was ripping off Medicare, say whistle-blowers, private insurers and patients were overbilled, too.

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    The cost of health

    While UW Medical was ripping off Medicare, say whistle-blowers, private insurers and patients were overbilled, too.

  • News

    June 27, 2001

    The right to remain sick

    While UW Medical was ripping off Medicare, say whistle-blowers, private insurers and patients were overbilled, too.

  • News

    July 19, 2000

    Stuck . . . with the bill

    Insurance companies are having to pay up for alternative medicine.

  • News

    October 21, 1998

    Universal citizens

    Insurance companies are having to pay up for alternative medicine.

  • News

    May 13, 1998

    The doctor is out

    Squeezed by low managed-care reimbursements and burdensome anti-fraud rules, local docs and hospitals drop their Medicare patients.

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