John Geyman has an excellent post examining all the front groups opposing Medicare for All. Highly recommended.

AHIP Launches New Long-Term Care Education Campaign

The centerpiece of this campaign is a new consumer-friendly website, http://www.MyLifeMyFamily.com, to provide consumers with basic information about long-term care insurance. The website provides videos that feature real-life stories from current policyholders, an interactive online quiz, and additional resources on long-term care insurance.  Read more 

The Latest from AHIP:

AHIP’s Campaign for An American Solution Listening Tour Comes to Detroit

DETROIT, Mich.— Detroit families and community leaders will share their health care stories and their priorities for health care reform at a roundtable today with representatives from the health insurance industry.

Detroit, MI is the second stop on a listening tour conducted by America’s Health Insurance Plans’ (AHIP) Campaign for An American Solution. The campaign is a new national grassroots and educational initiative to build support for workable health care reform based on six core principles: coverage, affordability, quality, value, choice and portability.  Read more 

In an article subtitled Meet the interest groups that will decide the fate of medical insurance he mentions murder by spreadsheet astroturf and HCAN’t.

Nowhere does he mention John Conyers, the 90 cosponsors, the the US Conference of Mayors or any of the broad coalition that has endorsed HR 676.  Read more 

Insurance Cancellation Questions Could Spread Beyond California

Today’s Health Blog jargon of the day is rescission, the insurance industry’s practice of revoking individual insurance policies because of health-related mistakes or omissions on the application for coverage. …

… Now it looks like the push-back against rescission may be spreading. Henry Waxman, a Democratic California Congressman, held a hearing on the subject yesterday and said his oversight committee plans to investigate the issue nationally.  Read more 

So AHIP’s astroturf site, Campaign for an American Solution, aka, murder by spread sheet has a web site. Sign up if you want to. Don’t give them your address (you have to give a zip code, use theirs, 20004). Give your name as Single Payer and address as HR 676.

Via Crooks and Liars we find out about a Health Care for America Now event:
Time:
Tuesday, July 22 at 11:00 AM
Duration:
1 hour
Host:
Lorraine at Progress Ohio
Location:
The Hyatt on Capitol Square (Columbus, OH)
75 E State St.
Columbus, OH 43215

Update - Politico  Read more 

Shakesville alerts us to Insurance industry forming activist army

“On an issue as big and far-reaching as health care reform, you need to be working with real people and you need to have a reach outside the Beltway,” AHIP spokesman Michael Tuffin told Politico in an interview outlining the industry’s strategy. “The issue isn’t going to be settled just by lobbyists in Washington. The American people are going to have their say.”

Projection, thy name is AHIP.

Target: Insurance companies and their lobbyists. Pretty funny.

Community Unites to Tell Health Insurance Industy: Health Care Yes, Insurance Companies No!

The June 19 rally will be the first organized mass expression of popular demand for high-quality, affordable health care directed by patients and doctors, not insurance profiteers.  Read more