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Insurance Industry

  • News

    April 4, 2012

    Tessie Goheen: the Face of Obamacare

    A young cancer survivor couldn't choose between school and chemo.

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Tessie Goheen Rallies ObamaCare Supporters, but Cancer Survivor's Story Offers Complicated Lesson for Locals

    Shortly after Tessie Goheen was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 20, she received a letter from her mother's health insurer, which also covered the college student. If Goheen dropped out of school while pursuing treatment, as she wanted, the insurer would no longer cover her. Now, four years late ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Washington Could Be First State to Require Abortion Coverage

    ​The State Senate is considering a bill which would make abortion coverage mandatory for all insurance providers, with a caveat, and the new bill, H.B. 2330, would give Washington State first-in-the-nation status for requiring abortion coverage when universal healthcare kicks in two years from ... More >>

  • 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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2010

    Atul Gawande

    ​ 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 27, 2010

    Kreidler Time

    Should your credit score help determine your auto-insurance rate?

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Mild-Mannered Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler Shows His Teeth Over Controversial "Credit Scoring"

    Mike Kreidler has found his crusade​State Insurance Commissioner and mild-mannered former optometrist Mike Kreidler has never had the high-profile of his headline-grabbing predecessor, Deborah Senn, who led a crusade against health insurers that charged too much and gave too little. Kreidler, ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2010

    Bartell's and the Drug War

    The Seattle chain cuts its Medicaid losses.

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Alabama Sen. Mark Pryor's Plan to Make Health Care Better by Making it More Like Amazon

    Alabama Sen. Mark Pryor's amendment allows insurance companies to be rated by the public.​The last time you bought something off Amazon, chances are you scrolled down to the user comments before clicking your way towards checkout. Sure, some of them were profane and unhelpful. But for the most ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    War Anniversary: Counting Up Civilian Army Toll

    ​Todd Drobnick, 35, of Everett, was a Gulf War I vetern but died in Gulf War II - Iraq - as a civilian. He was killed in a head-on crash Nov. 22, 2003, near Mosul, working as an interpreter on security and intelligence assignments for U.S. defense contractor Titan Corp. In a flag-draped casket ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Senate Committee, NYT Ask Whether Group Health Can Solve Our National Health Care Crisis

    America's got a little problem with health insurance--it's too expensive, inefficient, and hard to get. So Congress and the White House are trying to find a solution, which Barack Obama promised during the campaign would include a public insurance option. But that's stalemated in Congress, and, as w ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2008

    Gotham Sends Up Bat Signal on Safeco/Liberty Deal

    Concerns run deeper than the name of the Mariners’ playground.

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    Can't Afford Health Insurance? Thank Your Legislator

    Concerns run deeper than the name of the Mariners’ playground.

  • News

    July 25, 2007

    Who Is Esurance, and What Does It Want With Seattle's Young and Dangerous?

    Company's owners funded Bush, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2006

    Safeco and the Regulators

    Company's owners funded Bush, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    Oh, That Other Monorail

    Forget last week's wreck. The 1962 line's owners are still litigating insurance for a 2004 fire.

  • News

    July 27, 2005

    State Politics, Local Politics, Media, and Current Affairs

    Forget last week's wreck. The 1962 line's owners are still litigating insurance for a 2004 fire.

  • News

    July 27, 2005

    Unimpressed Whistle-Blowers

    A report on the UW medical-billing scandal says intentional fraud was 'rare.' Two whistle-blowers say it falls short.

  • News

    July 21, 2004

    My Life Between the Cracks

    A report on the UW medical-billing scandal says intentional fraud was 'rare.' Two whistle-blowers say it falls short.

  • 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.

  • News

    March 3, 2004

    Mentality Challenged

    An ignorant GOP state senator kills a popular bill that would have required insurers to cover mental-health treatment and counseling.

  • Music

    February 5, 2003

    Rhymes with Seltzer

    An ignorant GOP state senator kills a popular bill that would have required insurers to cover mental-health treatment and counseling.

  • News

    October 9, 2002

    Wealth Care

    An ignorant GOP state senator kills a popular bill that would have required insurers to cover mental-health treatment and counseling.

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    The cost of health

    An ignorant GOP state senator kills a popular bill that would have required insurers to cover mental-health treatment and counseling.

  • News

    June 27, 2001

    The right to remain sick

    An ignorant GOP state senator kills a popular bill that would have required insurers to cover mental-health treatment and counseling.

  • News

    February 21, 2001

    Empty Net

    Dot-commers find out—too late—that their bosses stopped paying for health insurance.

  • News

    August 23, 2000

    Insuring retreat

    Dot-commers find out—too late—that their bosses stopped paying for health insurance.

  • News

    July 19, 2000

    Stuck . . . with the bill

    Insurance companies are having to pay up for alternative medicine.

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Curing health care

    Insurance companies are having to pay up for alternative medicine.

  • News

    January 5, 2000

    Sick system

    Critics blame "socialist" health care reforms for driving up local insurance costs. But the free market may be the real culprit.

  • News

    May 5, 1999

    The Gary Locke vision thing

    Critics blame "socialist" health care reforms for driving up local insurance costs. But the free market may be the real culprit.

  • News

    October 21, 1998

    Universal citizens

    Critics blame "socialist" health care reforms for driving up local insurance costs. But the free market may be the real culprit.

  • 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.

  • News

    March 4, 1998

    A shake to the system

    Not worried about a Puget Sound megaquake? Get ready to pay anyway—your insurance company is very worried.

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