Last week, Steve Pociask testified at a North Carolina Legislative Committee hearing on Auto Insurance and was quoted by a North Carolina News Network – LINK HERE.

The op-ed is avaible at the Gainesville Sun website.

“Washington, DC, January 25, 2012 –– In response to multiple news reports that Google will be consolidating their privacy policies and not allowing consumers to opt out, Steve Pociask, President of the American Consumer Institute, made the following statement: “The reports of Google’s privacy changes, which will allow no opt out, raises grave concerns for [...]

Before the North Carolina Joint Legislative Study Committee on Automobile Insurance Statement of Steve Pociask President of the American Consumer Institute, Center for Citizen Research January 25, 2012 Raleigh, North Carolina Today I will talk about a number of problems with the current regulatory system in North Carolina, including the existence of hidden fees and [...]

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The TC Palm op-ed, written by ACI President Steve Pociask, ran on Thursday, January 12, 2012 and can be viewed here.

Read the entire article here.

PDF VERSION IS AVAILABLE HERE — PCPAN_Letter_ACI to FTC   January 11, 2012 Chairman Jon Leibowitz Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580   Dear Chairman Leibowitz: The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research is strongly opposed to the proposed merger between pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) Express Scripts, Inc. and Medco [...]

The Solution Can Sometimes Be Worse than the Problem (Published in THE HILL’s Congressional Blog on January 6, 2012 as “FTC should block proposed Express Scripts-Medco merger”  The perfect example of the law of unintended consequences can be found in the 7 million acres from Texas to Washington DC that is covered by Kudzu vines.  [...]

The Florida Times Union article  “Floridians get the Cat Fund Troubles” mentions the American Consumer Institute survey of state insurance consumers and calls for fixing the current broken state-run insurance Cat fund.  The article can be read here.