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CEOs Called to Congress to Back Up Health-Bill Costs: Video

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:32:22 +0000

March 29 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Lizzie O’Leary reports on the costs companies plan to book related to the new health-care law.
Chief executive officers of AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Deere & Co. have been called by lawmakers to appear at a hearing April 21 to discuss the expenses related to the law. (Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:1:47

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Cordani Says Obama Health Plan `Light’ on Cost Reduction: Video

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:33:08 +0000

March 4 (Bloomberg) — David Cordani, chief executive officer of Cigna Corp., talks with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.
Cordani says the plan is “light” on reducing costs. Cordani also discusses today’s meeting between health-insurer chief executive officers and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:4:41

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Douglass Says Health-Insurance Rate Hikes Exceed Costs: Video

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:33:03 +0000

March 4 (Bloomberg) — Linda Douglass, a White House spokeswoman for health care, talks with Bloombergs Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about how legislation overhauling the U.S. health-care system would address increases in health-insurance rates.
President Barack Obama and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with executives of the top health insurers after WellPoint Inc., the largest insurance company by membership, proposed a 39 percent rate increase for some policyholders in California. (Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:3:57

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Ignagni Says Congress Has Balked on Health-Care Costs: Video

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:28:44 +0000

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Karen Ignagni, president of Americas Health Insurance Plans, talks with Bloombergs Betty Liu and Peter Cook about the outlook for Presidents Barack Obama bipartisan summit on health care.
Ignagni also discusses the role of insurance premiums in the debate. (Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:3:46

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Herbert Pardes Discusses Medical Malpractice Claims: Video

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:28:34 +0000

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Herbert Pardes, chief executive officer at New York Presbyterian Hospital, talks about medical malpractice claims and health-care overhaul legislation. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:0:38

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Wellpoint’s Fluegel Says Medical Costs Driving Premiums: Video

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:31:54 +0000

Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Bradley Fluegel, executive vice president for strategy at WellPoint Inc., talks with Bloomberg’s Peter Cook about his company’s proposed health-insurance premium increase and the outlook for an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.
Wellpoint, the biggest U.S. health insurer by enrollment, has been summoned to provide congressional testimony about proposed premium increases in California. President Obama will release a proposal to restart the health-care debate before a bipartisan White House meeting on Feb. 25. (Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:5:1

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Erin Burnett: America Hates HMO Health Care Insurance Company

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:29:20 +0000

Obama needs to draw a line in the sand soon. He can not just be Rodney King and say cannot we get along to all health care parties. In order to cut health care costs in this country, he needs to be real SOB to all these evil empires: insurance companies, trial lawyers, doctors, drug makers, organized labors, lobbyists, congressional staffs, Obama admin staff and 545 “pay for play” congress. Every one knows, American health care delivery costs are very expensive. Too many paper pushers for sure. If we have NAFTA like free treaties on health care for all Americans with countries like India, Russia, China, Mexico and Canada, there is no doubt these costs will come down dramatically. I hear Republicans wants competition, free enterprise and no government take over of health care then, why limit to US market only, let us go international and see what happens. All cars are well made and cheaper today because we have imported cars from Japan over 30 years ago. I have very good health insurance plan. I hardly use them. I prefer to go cross the border and pay $50.00 for doctor visit. In US, even with good health insurance plan, I will end up paying out of pocket at least $250.00 for similar doctor check up. Bottom line is Obama should negotiate directly with the American people rather than trying to please the axis of evil that made trillions of dollars ripping off American people for decades.

Duration : 0:2:2

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Discount Dental Plans vs Dental Insurance

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:23:00 +0000

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Many people have asked me what the difference is between a dental insurance plan and dental discount plans so I decided to make a quick video explaining the two plans.

Duration : 0:8:50

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