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My recent blog, “Ending the doctor gravy train,” that explored how health care reform plans to make transparent the commonplace practice of doctors accepting gifts of food, money and junkets from pharmaceutical companies really hit a nerve with doctors out there.
Here’s a sampling:
Doc: This article is ridiculous. Virtually all gifts and freebies that doctors might
As President Barack Obama’s historic health care reform inches toward its final exam before the Supreme Court next month, a second front led by leaders of the Catholic Church has been growing against the Affordable Care Act.
Unlike the legal challenge by 26 states to the act’s “individual mandate” that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance
The poor pay more for auto insurance and that ain’t fair. That’s the executive summary of a new study by the Consumer Federation of America funded by the Ford Foundation that calls for an end to de facto price discrimination based on questionable rating factors.
CFA executive director Stephen Brobeck and director of insurance J. Robert
Bank of America’s cash-for-short-sales pilot program to help Florida homeowners stave off foreclosure has been something of a good news/bad news scenario since its debut last October.
Under the program, Bank of America offered $5,000 to $20,000 to homeowners who agree to sell their distressed property in a short sale rather than let it slip into
My recent blog concerning Allstate’s decision to drop 45,000 North Carolina customers who refused to “bundle” their homeowners and auto insurance policies with the company unleashed a firestorm of reader anger directed at the “Good Hands” people.
Here’s a sampling:
Evan: To HECK with ALLSTATE….3 yrs ago I owned a home in suffolk county,NY… In 2008 ALLSTATE contacted
Before you swallow that new drug prescribed by your doctor, wouldn’t you like to know whether the drug’s manufacturer recently treated your physician to an all-expenses-paid golf junket to Pebble Beach or Hilton Head to extol its miracle properties?
The pills-for-perks dance is commonplace in modern medicine, where based on appearances alone, one might easily conclude
Way back in the pre-now days, it could take years for consumer complaints to catch up with a company. But today, thanks to the now-ness of social media, corporations can lose millions overnight if they’re called out on Facebook or Twitter for an egregious policy or practice. Just ask Bank of America.
What’s a poor corporation
Did some of America’s largest banks profit by purchasing high-priced fallback insurance policies on homes facing foreclosure?
That’s what New York’s state financial regulators want to know in an ongoing probe of the loan servicing operations at several large banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
The probe centers on “force-placed” insurance, a
This March, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which for the first time will require all Americans to obtain health insurance two years from now under a provision called the individual mandate.
If the nine justices rule that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, those 26 states challenging health care
Smack in the middle of most debates over the fate of that three-legged dog known as the National Flood Insurance Program has been the assumption that private flood insurance from the Allstates and State Farms of the world would prove far more expensive than government-issue.
Well, Houston, turns out we may have a problem with that
