Amerigroup
<p><b>Amerigroup</b>
is a Fortune 500 health insurance company. It began as Americaid
Community Care in 1994 and was initially aimed at the health care
problems of children, mothers and pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid.
Amerigroup has a history of declining services to low-income pregnant
women in Illinois from 2001 to 2003. <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amerigroup#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</span></h2>
<p>Amerigroup has been a corporate funder of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) and a member of ALEC's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Health_and_Human_Services_Task_Force" title="Health and Human Services Task Force">Health and Human Services Task Force</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amerigroup#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup> Amerigroup's Vice President of Business Development, Pam Perry, received ALEC's "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Award_Winners" title="ALEC Award Winners">Private Sector Member of the Year Award</a>" at the 2012 annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.<sup id="cite_ref-SLC_Agenda_2-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amerigroup#cite_note-SLC_Agenda-2">[3]</a></sup> See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Corporations" title="ALEC Corporations">ALEC Corporations</a> for more.</p>
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<div style="padding:2px 5px; font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect">ALEC</a>
is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it
is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state
legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations
fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task
forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with
elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for
Media and Democracy's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.PRWatch.org">PRWatch.org site</a>.</div>
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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2>
<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amerigroup#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">Rudolph Bush, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-10-31/news/0610310171_1_medicaid-pregnant-women-health-status">Jury finds HMO bias in signing patients</a>". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 21 March 2012</span></li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amerigroup#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">Common Cause, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8072485">ALEC Task Force Materials</a>, organization website, accessed May 3, 2012</span></li><li id="cite_note-SLC_Agenda-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amerigroup#cite_ref-SLC_Agenda_2-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council, 39th Annual Meeting Agenda, organizational document, July 25-28, 2012, on file with CMD</span></li></ol>
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