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Barack Obama: A Friend to Women's Health

Katie Breslin | Posted 02.07.2012 | College

Read More: Obama Reelection, Women's Issues, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Plan B, Health Insurance, Insurance, Barack Obama, Women's Health, 2012 Election, Contraception, Affordable Care Act, Kathleen Sebelius Plan B, Birth Control, Health Care, Healthcare, College News

When I am looking for a candidate that stood by women and fought for access to birth control, Barack Obama will be my candidate.

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'Green News Report' - February 2, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.07.2012 | Green

Read More: Asian Carp, Fracking, Economy, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Coal, Pipeline, Canada, Tar Sands, Drought, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Heat Wave, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Great Lakes, Gop, Groundhog Day, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Invasive Species, Environmentalism, Subsidies, State Department, Barack Obama, Texas, Energy Efficiency, Pennsylvania, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Fox News, James Hansen, Illinois, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Gasland, Wall Street Journal, Brad Pitt, Daily Show, Insurance, Saudi Arabia, Daily Mail, Josh Fox, Green Building, Eminent Domain, Munich Re, Cuba, Green News

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Commercial Mortgage Bankers Are Doing Deals As the Real Estate Market Breathes New Signs of Life

Jerry Chautin | Posted 02.01.2012 | Business

Read More: Rentals, Financing, Banks, Recession, Real Estate, Loan Application, Credit Crunch, Cash Flow, Charles Green, Working Capital Loans, Multifamily Financing, Insurance, Business News, Bankruptcy, Financial Institutions, The Loan Book, Wells Fargo Bank, Commercial Real Estate Loans, Acquisition Loans, Job Creation, Alternative Financing, Small Business Loans, GE Capital, Fannie Mae, Mortgage Bankers Association Convention, Anthony Falor, Freddie Mac, Bob Coleman, Borrowing Money, Lending Programs, Sba, Investor, Fidelity National Bank, Cref, Small Business America, Business News

Rental apartments are back in demand, financing for hotels and motels is loosening up a bit and investors are stepping off the sidelines with wads of cash to do deals.

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Reinventing Unemployment Insurance

Trooper Sanders | Posted 01.30.2012 | Politics

Read More: Jobs, Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Unemployment Insurance, US Economy, Unemployment Benefits Extension, Unemployment Benefits, Insurance, Economy, Politics News

As America's economy goes through another historic transition, tapping the power of the market to help workers avoid financial ruin is not only the right thing, it is the smart thing to do to strengthen American capitalism for all of its people.

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Banks Probed For Allegedly Steering Homeowners Into More Expensive Insurance

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.11.2012 | Business

Read More: Natural Disasters, Housing Market, Housing Prices, Foreclosure Crisis, Assurant, Home Insurance, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Insurance Companies, Homeowner Insurance, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Wall Street, Insurance, Housing Insurance, Forced Place Insurance, Everbank, Citigroup, Business News

Let's say you're a homeowner facing tough times. You're starting to fall behind on your home insurance payments, but then, your bank steps in and buys...

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'Green News Report' - January 10, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.10.2012 | Green

Read More: Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Nigeria, Regulation, Power Plants, Iran, Innovation, Green News Report, Dioxin, Pollution, Coal, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Insurance, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Food Politics, Africa, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Maple Syrup, Environmentalism, State Department, New York, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Video, Grand Canyon, Conservation, Colorado, Tar Sands, Drought, Ken Salazar, Overfishing, Ohio, Rick Santorum, Big Ag, New Hampshire Primary, Mining, Fish, Uranium, Alaska, Green News

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Have America's Ballooning Health Care Costs Finally Turned A Corner?

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 01.10.2012 | Business

Read More: Dental Care, White House, Video, Insurance, Health Care Spending, President Barack Obama, George Mason University, Medicare, Health Insurance, Economic Growth, Health Care, Health Affairs, Emory University, Republicans, Business News

WASHINGTON — Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-bac...

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FEMA Takes Part Of Ike Victim's Social Security To Collect Debt

www.chron.com | Posted 01.09.2012 | Fifty

Read More: Debt, Fema, Social Security, Insurance, Hurricane Ike, Port Bolivar, Hurricane Ike Texas, Roy Mooney, Hurricane Ike Victim, Fifty News

PORT BOLIVAR - Roy Mooney was surprised to learn early last year that the federal government was deducting $180 each month from his $1,200 Social Secu...

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Insurer Profits Are Up In The Wake Of Health Care Law They Opposed

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.06.2012 | Business

Read More: Congress, Unitedhealth, Health Care Profits, Cigna, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Aetna, Humana, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Video, Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Coverage, Health Care, Wellpoint, Health Care Industry, Business News

Since insurance companies undertook extensive lobbying efforts against health care reform -- spending millions in an attempt to derail the legislation...

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Paralyzed Chicago-Area Athlete Dies After 11-Year Fight

AP | Posted 01.07.2012 | Chicago

Read More: Eisenhower High School, Video, Rocky Clark Dead, Insurance, Rocky Clark, Rocky Clark Paralyzed, Rasul Clark, Health Insurance, Rasul Rocky Clark, Healthcare, Chicago News

ROBBINS, Ill. — A former suburban Chicago high school football player who was paralyzed from the neck down when he was tackled during a game in ...

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'Green News Report' - January 5, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.05.2012 | Green

Read More: Antarctica, Fracking, Epa, Nigeria, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Power Plants, Iran, Innovation, Dioxin, Fda, Green News Report, Pollution, Chevron Ecuador, Coal, Sharks, Offshore Drilling, Antibiotic Resistance, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Insurance, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Superbugs, Food Politics, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Chevron, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Maple Syrup, Factory Farming, Nuclear Power, Brazil, Ecuador, Chesapeake Bay, Environmentalism, Subsidies, New York, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, Video, Green News

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A Solution to Your Worst Retirement Nightmare

InvestingAnswers | Posted 01.04.2012 | Fifty

Read More: Aging, Longevity, Insurance, Inflation, Retirement, Investments, Longevity Insurance, Fifty News

Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast rules for estimating your life expectancy. Your current health status, your lifestyle and the age your parents passed away at are all influencing factors.

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Very Public Health

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 12.31.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Transparency, Publicness, Insurance, Health Care, Health, Healthy Living News

Watching the remarkable Xeni Jardin tweet her mammogram and cancer diagnosis, then blog eloquently about it, then crowdsource opening up her own MRI data makes me ask: Why are we so secretive about sickness and health? And what do we lose because we are?

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Businesses Face A 'Devastating' New Threat

HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 12.15.2011 | Business

Read More: Insurance Industry, Insurance Premiums, Video, Insurance, Hurricane Irene Insurance Losses, Hurricane Irene Insurance Claims, Insurance Claims, Antitrust Exemption, Antitrust, Hurricane Irene, Regulation, Center for Justice & Democracy, Insurance Companies, Business, Business News

WASHINGTON -- With the economy still weak, businesses may face a fresh blow from insurance companies next year, according to a new report published Th...

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Insurance Industry Reaps Massive Profits From Delay

HuffingtonPost.com | Mollie Reilly | Posted 12.13.2011 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Insurance, Russ Roberts, Insurance Claims, Insurance Claim Delays, Allstate, McKinsey & Company, Regulation, Insurance Regulation, Naic, State Farm, Jay Feinman, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Unlike many other businesses, the insurance industry is bound by law to act in good faith with its customers. Because of their protectiv...

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Santorum Defends Health Insurance Companies

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 12.02.2011 | Politics

Read More: Video, Medical Insurance, Insurance, 2012 Election, Gop 2012, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum, Affordable Care Act, Rick Santorum 2012, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

While speaking to a group of high school students in New Hampshire on Friday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum defended insurers for de...

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Are Haiti's Cholera Victims Warren Buffett's "Girls in the Convertible?"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 01.31.2012 | Impact

Are Fonkoze and Mercy Corps unwittingly helping major stockholders in the reinsurance firm Swiss Re turn Haitian women into Buffett's "girl(s) in the convertible?"

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Med Mal Caps Hurt Patients

Shirley Svorny | Posted 01.23.2012 | Politics

Read More: Medical Malpractice Caps, Health Insurance, Insurance, Jobs Through Growth Act, Medical Malpractice, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

Placing caps would reduce malpractice insurers' incentives to oversee physician practice patterns and reduce incentives to manage risk in our health care system, and make health care that much riskier for all of us.

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Shatner's Tips For Avoiding Disaster This Thanksgiving

Esquire | Posted 11.18.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Insurance, William Shatner, Thanksgiving, Fire Safety, Fried Turkey, Thanksgiving Recipes, Captain Kirk, State Farm, Fifty News

Deep-fried turkey: moist, delicious, and a grease fire just waiting to happen. The vogue for frying turkeys has somewhat tapered off in the last few y...

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11 Things That Are Worth The Money

SavvySugar | Posted 01.07.2012 | Women

Read More: Savvysugar, Insurance, Worth the Price, Worth the Money, Well-Being, Health, Health Insurance, Spending Right, Women News

Tough times have made us all a bit more cautious about whipping out our wallets on a whim. When it comes to spending with discretion, it's important t...

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Does the Religious Right Really Care about Children?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 12.28.2011 | Gay Voices

In anointing themselves the champions of "family values" and protectors of vulnerable children, religious conservatives have had little to say when confronted with the undeniable existence of actual gay families -- particularly kids with LGBT parents.

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Getting Going: Funding The Post-Pension Retirement

wsj.com | KAREN BLUMENTHAL | Posted 12.24.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Longevity, Insurance, Saving for Retirement, Retirement, Metlife, Health Insurance, Retirement Planning, Fifty News

The great scramble for retirement income is coming. Are you ready? Many aren't....

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"Branching Out"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 12.19.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Skylight, Stamford Advocate, Handsaw, Insurance, Chainsaw, Humor, Lumberjack, Nature, Paul Bunyan, Fireplace, Fire, Oak, Stamford, Trees, Comedy News

For weeks, I had asked the perplexing and ridiculous question: if a tree falls in my backyard, and I am there to hear it, will it land on my head?

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Obama Makes Disaster Declaration For D.C.

HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 11.28.2011 | DC

Read More: Dc, Video, Fema, Insurance, Robert Hartwig, Hurricane-Irene-2011, Budget, Hurricane Relief, President Obama, Hurricane Irene, D.C., Barack Obama, DC News

WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday issued a federal disaster declaration for the District of Columbia due to Hurricane Irene. In the declarati...

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Obama Shelves Care Plan For Workers

Posted 11.22.2011 | Politics

Read More: President Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Deficit Reduction, Barack Obama Health Care, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Deficit, Video, Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health and Human Services, Barack Obama 2012, Class, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Program, Politics News

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has shelved a financially troubled long-term care insuranc...

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