Environment

When Insuring Crops Ensures Climate Mistakes

Mark Schapiro / Capital & Main Jun 28, 2023 Crop insurance is one of many hidden ways the USDA has been masking the impact of climate change on farmers. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Insurers Should Support People, Not the Fossil Fuel Industry

By Tony Dunn / Independent Media Institute Feb 27, 2020 Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Lobbies’ Greatest Ally in the Effort to Sabotage Health Care Reform

Joshua Cho / FAIR Jan 28, 2020 The insurance industry’s efforts to block changes to our medical system would not be so successful without working in tandem with media. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Even Insurance Companies Are Turning Their Backs on Coal

Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network Dec 9, 2019 As the climate crisis worsens, one of its biggest culprits is getting too hot for many former backers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Insurance Companies Are Creating an Economy of Extortion

Renee Dudley / ProPublica Aug 29, 2019 Even when public agencies and companies hit by ransomware could recover their files on their own, insurers prefer to pay the ransom. Why? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Facebook’s New Transparency Rules Are Being Dodged With Ease

Jeremy B. Merrill / ProPublica Nov 1, 2018 A new investigation finds a range of industries were able to successfully mask their sponsorship of political ads on the social network. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Huge Bills

Marshall Allen / ProPublica May 28, 2018 The role that insurance companies—the middlemen between patients and providers—play in boosting health care tabs often escapes scrutiny. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

National Improved Medicare for All Making Progress

Margaret Flowers / Truthdig Jan 5, 2018 When the opposition steals your language to confuse and misdirect, you know are winning. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Some Pay More to Buy Prescription Drugs With Insurance Than Without It

Charles Ornstein / ProPublica, and Katie Thomas / The New York Times Dec 11, 2017 As insurers ask consumers to pay a greater share of their drug costs, it may be cheaper to pay cash than use an insurance card. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Trump’s HHS Nominee Might Allow Birth Control Coverage to Be Blocked

Emily Wells / Truthdig Dec 3, 2017 Women's issue advocates say the Health and Human Services nominee, Alex Azar, has a history of using positions of power to undermine birth control access. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Tax Plan Won’t Include Trump Push to Repeal Obamacare Mandate

Emily Wells / Truthdig Nov 2, 2017 Republicans reject the president's call for the tax reform legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act requirement that individuals be insured. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NRA Sponsors Insurance for Members Who Shoot People

Emily Wells / Truthdig Oct 23, 2017 Gun control advocates believe insurance policies sponsored by the National Rifle Association offer gun owners a sense of security in being quick to shoot. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )