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 ...
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 ...
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"
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
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 âconcerns with some of the language in the draft paperâ released by the Treasury to coincide with Obama's announcement. ...
President Obama Announces Insurance Reform Proposal
Collision Week (subscription)
AM Best: Insurer Premiums And Assets Shrank In 2008
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."
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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
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 ...
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 ...