health insurance companies

Express Scripts and Medco Health Services manage the prescription drug coverage that health insurance companies offer to large organizations.

The two firms say their plans for a $29 billion merger will help control health care costs for consumers.

But will bigger really be better?

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The White House unveiled a new health care overhaul plan Monday. It includes a proposal to give federal authorities the power to limit rate hikes by health insurance companies.

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ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports on a tiff between Rep.

John Conyers, D-Mich., and the President:

Conyers has been critical of the president’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan and last month he had harsh words on the president’s efforts on health care reform.

If you’re not familiar with the word rescission, this is the practice of canceling policies because people didn’t reveal a preexisting condition.

And it’s one of the key reasons why the health insurance companies can claim that there’s $100 billion in health care fraud every year.

There are many people trying to influence the debate on overhauling health care. Washington lobbyists are pushing the interests of health insurance companies, drug companies, hospitals and many more.

Lobbyist Paul Lee, a founder of Strategic Health Care, talks with Ari Shapiro about the debate over changing the health care system.

Bill Moyers recently sat down with Wendell Potter, an industry insider who worked for CIGNA, one of the top health insurance companies in the US, for the past 15 years.

Now Potter has now turned into health reform advocate, and the result is a must watch interview.

Because not only does it uncover what many of us already suspected (people denied care unjustly), it also puts the lie to the myth that private industry is more efficient.

In fact, it’s nearly 700% less efficient by some measures.

They say they won’t pass any plan that doesn’t have a public option in it, and that inflexible position could scuttle the whole thing.