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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXWP2HuxGE&feature=channel"><H1>WellPoint sued an ENTIRE STATE to increase profits</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXWP2HuxGE&feature=channel"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AKXWP2HuxGE&hl=en&fs=1&" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXWP2HuxGE&feature=channel"><DIV>Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn't enough for WellPoint, the nation's largest insurance company.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.indystar.com/article/20090929/BUSINESS03/909290319/Ex-WellPoint+exec+helped+write+health-care+bill" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20090929/BUSINESS03/909290319/Ex-WellPoint+exec+helped+write+health-care+bill" style="font-size: 11px;">www.indystar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indystar.com/article/20090929/BUSINESS03/909290319/Ex-WellPoint+exec+helped+write+health-care+bill"><H1>Ex-WellPoint exec helped write health-care bill</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indystar.com/article/20090929/BUSINESS03/909290319/Ex-WellPoint+exec+helped+write+health-care+bill"><P><SPAN class="pp"></SPAN>Liz Fowler, a former public affairs executive for Indianapolis-based health insurance giant WellPoint, helped to craft health-care reform legislation being proposed by Senate <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="11026730">Finance</A> Committee Chairman Max Baucus.<SPAN class="aa"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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Baucus' bill does not call for the creation of a public plan.<SPAN class="aa"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indystar.com/article/20090929/BUSINESS03/909290319/Ex-WellPoint+exec+helped+write+health-care+bill"><P><SPAN class="pp"></SPAN>Stone said he considered the bill from Baucus, D-Mont., as the most favorable to for-profit insurers of those now before Congress.<SPAN class="aa"></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/204572D5-B36A-493C-BBF4-CD933791EC1E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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