Here is the latest video on the big health insurers from Brave New Films, this time looking at Wellpoint’s efforts to sue the government of Maine for not allowing them to significantly raise premium rates.

Nothing seems to slow these health insurance companies down, give them pause, fear backlash, etc…

I guess it’s because the corporations aren’t people, just profit-seeking entities. But what about public relations as an engine of profit, as I learned in my (misguided) business school days?

In the 1st of a wave of upcoming protests against health insurers denial of coverage approved by doctors, 16 were arrested at Aetna in New York City on September 29th.

[Photo: Associated Press]

Here is video of Shepard Smith with Fox News correspondent Dan Springer in Vancouver, B.C. who is ‘reporting’ on the overwhelming waits in Canada for medical care and the terrible suffering we are all going through here.
He says Canadian single-payer “works really well if you don’t get too sick.” In fact, it’s the opposite – it works really well if you do get too sick, because you jump to the front of the queue for care… And yes, there is a queue -if it is less serious, you …

Rallies against the big insurers are welcome, but why is single-payer off the agenda?
[Photo: Service Employees International Union]

I am not convinced that Baucus has simply been trying to find common ground with Republicans in a well-intentioned but wrong-headed attempt to compromise that has backfired.
[Image: New York Times]

The video focuses on Cigna, including how it denied care to a dying patient who needed a liver transplant.

Wendell Potter in Salon.com continues his whistleblowing on how health insurance PR aims to spread lies and kill reform.
[Photo: Center for American Progress]

Have a quick look at this chart to see how massively this healthcare fight is underwritten by the health care industry.