Monday, June 29, 2009

Insurance Company Schemes - New York Times


Insurance Company Schemes

New York Times


Congressional committees heard a lot this month about the devious schemes used by health insurance companies to drop or shortchange sick patients. ...


The Aliments that put you on the Insurer's Drop List

Daily Kos



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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Grab low prices before life insurance rates increase - Chicago Tribune


Grab low prices before life insurance rates increase

Chicago Tribune


The window might be quickly closing on consumers' opportunity to refinance at great rates--not their home mortgages, but their term life ...



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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Corporately Owned Congress Blocking The Way For Meaningful Reform - American Chronicle


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Corporately Owned Congress Blocking The Way For Meaningful Reform

American Chronicle


Health Care, Health Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Oil, Defense, Telecom, Automotive, Financial, Biotech, Railroads, Life Insurance and many other companies as ...


Little Hope for GOP to Support Health Bill

New York Times


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Friday, June 26, 2009

America needs universal health care - NinerOnline.com


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America needs universal health care

NinerOnline.com


Twenty four percent of Americans don't seek health care due to cost, and over fifty million Americans have no health insurance at  »


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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Fed says recession easing, inflation not a threat - The Associated Press


Globe and Mail


Fed says recession easing, inflation not a threat

The Associated Press


His term will expire early next year. Bernanke â€" a student of the Great Depression who spent most of his professional life in academia â€" has elicited praise ...


Market springs back

Melbourne Herald Sun



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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Health Care: We Fear What We Want - Washington Post

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Health Care: We Fear What We Want

Washington Post, United States

Our readers complain about insurance companies charging too much and denying treatment for this or that. They worry that a public option might be good or bad. They argue about whether Canadians and Europeans receive better or worse care. ...

The Health Care Industry vs. Health Reform

Center for Media and Democracy

Obama says government-run health insurance "makes sense"

Reuters India

Debating health care with Congressman Blunt

Kansas City Star

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

America's Health Care Priorities I: Consumers, Patients, Workers - New York Times

Seattle Post Intelligencer

America's Health Care Priorities I: Consumers, Patients, Workers

New York Times, United States

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Megan Fox makes best of life transformed by stardom - Chicago Sun-Times

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Megan Fox makes best of life transformed by stardom

Chicago Sun-Times, United States

Her life has been transformed from Tennessee wannabe to the one they


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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Dems' health care plan stumbles but keeps moving - The Associated Press

New York Times

Dems' health care plan stumbles but keeps moving

The Associated Press

Major provisions of the 850-page House bill would impose new responsibilities on both individuals and employers to get coverage, end insurance company practices that deny coverage to the sick and create a new government-sponsored plan to compete with ...

Video: Cost a Major Issue As Senate Starts Health Care

The Associated Press

House Unveils Health Bill, Minus Key Details

New York Times

Senate's Health-Care Draft C


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Obama's Insurance Proposal May Grab Power From States - Bloomberg

Obama's Insurance Proposal May Grab Power From States

Bloomberg

The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, a trade group for policyholder-owned companies, said in a statement it had “concerns with some of the language in the draft paper” released by the Treasury to coincide with Obama's announcement. ...

President Obama Announces Insurance Reform Proposal

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AM Best: Insurer Premiums And Assets Shrank In 2008

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Beneficial Life To Stop New Policies; Ratings Slashed - Wall Street Journal

Beneficial Life To Stop New Policies; Ratings Slashed

Wall Street Journal

In addition, higher mortality rates among policyholders is liable to result from not adding new customers. S&P also raised concerns about Beneficial's investments, which include "significant concentrations in residential mortgage-backed securities."


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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Regional Fed President: Pace of economic decline slows - Bizjournals.com

Regional Fed President: Pace of economic decline slows

Bizjournals.com, NC

Markets for short-term funding also have improved, including the interbank lending markets and commercial paper markets. Spreads between the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and the overnight index swap rate have declined to levels that are close ...


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Friday, June 12, 2009

CORRECTED - (OFFICIAL)-Fitch cuts Manulife Financial ratings - Reuters

CORRECTED - (OFFICIAL)-Fitch cuts Manulife Financial ratings

Reuters

In addition, Fitch has affirmed all ratings of MFC's insurance related operating subsidiaries, including Manufacturer's Life Insurance Company (MLI) and John Hancock Life Insurance Company (JHLIC). (See complete list of ratings actions at the end of ...


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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Amidst fight for life, Kennedy champions health reform (Feature) - Monsters and Critics.com

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Amidst fight for life, Kennedy champions health reform (Feature)

Monsters and Critics.com

For half of his life, the political icon of liberal, progressive America has led the battle for better and more thorough health coverage for


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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Bravo's 'Top Chef: Masters' premiere nabs our Must List pick ... - Entertainment Weekly

Bravo's 'Top Chef: Masters' premiere nabs our Must List pick ...

Entertainment Weekly

... though it's a spin-off season (dubbed Masters) with real-life top chefs competing for their favorite charities, I'll take that over pretty much everything else on TV right now. The best part of tonight's premiere is that it totally snuck up on me. ...


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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

A Better Way to Reform Health Care - Huffington Post

ABC News

A Better Way to Reform Health Care

Huffington Post, NY

On the cost front, our bill gives every American a generous tax credit ($2290 per individual, $5710 per family) to purchase health insurance. We do this by ending the current discrimination in the tax code that gives people a tax break if they receive ...

Video: Health care messages for Obama

WLUK

Senate Republicans Send Obama Letter Opposing Public Health Plan

Washington Post

Healthcare Reform and the Government's Role

U.S. News & World Report

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

The pitting of doctor against doctor - Boston Globe

Washington Post

The pitting of doctor against doctor

Boston Globe, United States

The issue isn't that primary-care doctors get paid less than cardiac surgeons, but that the system of healthcare rests on insurance companies and their CEOs making huge profits. No amount of cost-cutting can save enough money to support a for-profit ...

Video: Obama: 'Time to Deliver' on Health Care

The Associated Press

moveon and the public option: lipstick on a sow

Daily Kos

Health care costs are bankrupting nation

The Patriot-News - PennLive.com

CQPolitics.com - Bangor Daily News



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Monday, June 1, 2009

Hurdles remain in Obama's push to revamp health care - USA Today

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Hurdles remain in Obama's push to revamp health care

USA Today

Perhaps the biggest question is whether powerful factions of the health care industry â€" from insurance companies to pharmaceutical makers to hospitals â€" will launch the sort of full-scale attack that kept the Clinton administration's health care ...

Barack Obama's health plan takes shape

Reuters

Better health care: balancing better options

Politico

Health insurance tips for new college graduates

San Francisco Chronicle

National Journal - HULIQ



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