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The article below underscores the power of the health insurance lobby on Capitol Hill.

As we seek to reform our nation's health care system, it is important our members understand the opponents we are up against.  Current - and future - retirees need to know how politics affects their retiree health care.

Please click on this link, telling Congress to end the large taxpayer subsidies we give to private insurance companies to provide many Medicare services. 

Not only is this an egregious example of corporate welfare, but it threatens the future solvency of Medicare.  This is certainly money which could be better spent.

Michael Buckley

Communications Director

Alliance for Retired Americans

Government, Lobbyists and Health Insurance Industry

If the rumor mill is correct, Karen M. Ignagni is about to notch a major victory for her employer, the nation's health insurance industry.

As chief executive of the awkwardly named America's Health Insurance Plans, Ignagni presides over the association that represents nearly 1,300 companies that sell health …more

Washington Post

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum

Tuesday, September 18, 2007