Public Option Gets a Boost from Ex-UnitedHealth Executive
By Chen May Yee
Star Tribune
10-28-09

Lois Quam has been many things: a health insurance executive, a venture capitalist and, most recently, owner of her own strategic advisory firm.

Now add insurance industry critic.

In a speech Wednesday at the University of Minnesota's Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Quam threw her support behind a proposed government-run health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers. Read full article