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A consumer group says insurers illegally pressured employees to use company time to try to influence the health system reform debate, a charge they deny.

Patients counseled on weight loss by physicians are three times more likely to attempt dieting.

The state's attorney general said she is going to be "proactive" in evaluating compensation for executives and directors of health plans and hospitals.

The five-term Iowa senator has championed legislation advancing nutrition, preventive health care and the rights of people with disabilities.

Health plans say the advocacy group is misrepresenting the rates.