Insurance Companies

End the Bailout

Alan Schram | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Insurance Companies, Winston Churchill, Credit Crunch, Libor, S&P 500, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Dollar, Paulson, Bailout, Wall Street, Financial Services, Business News, Banks, Financial Crisis, Bank Deposits, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, Tarp, Genworth, Business News
Alan Schram

Paulson is now on his third plan for how to spend the cash Congress gave him. Nobody knows what he will do next.

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Treasury To Extend Bailout Funds To Insurance Companies

Washington Post | David Cho, Zachary A. Goldfarb and Binyamin Appelbaum | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Insurance Companies, Treasury Department, Bailout Plan, Bailout, Treasury Aid, Business News

The Treasury Department is working on ways to broaden its $700 billion bank rescue program to help insurance companies that are a critical backstop to...

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Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit And Socializes Risk

Michele Swenson | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Economic Crisis, Government Health Care, Medical Bankdruptcy, Taxpayer-Subsidized Medical Costs, Unpaid Medical Bills, Privatized Medicare, National Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Socialized Risk, Rising Out-of-Pocket Health Costs, Socialized Medicine, For-Profit Insurance, Health, Single Payer Health Insurance, Privatized Profit, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Health Care, American Hospital Association, Unitedhealth, William McGuire, John McCain, Minimum Benefit Plans, America's Health Insurance Providers, American Medical Association, Home News
Michele Swenson

The excesses of the health insurance industry resemble those of Wall Street and the subprime housing market, typified by privatized profits for insurers and socialized risk for taxpayers and consumers.

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McCain's Health Care Plan Would Limit State Regulatory Authority, Leaving People Vulnerable

John Schwarz | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Coverage, Obama Healthcare, State Regulation, Health, Health; John McCain, Deregulation, Insurance Companies, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Federal Regulations, Factcheck.org, Home News
John Schwarz

McCain's proposals would allow health insurers to offer the same health plans throughout the nation without any or little state oversight.

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Healthcare Costs Should Be Reduced By Holding Providers, Insurance Companies Accountable

Paul Diamond | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home

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Paul Diamond

The insurance companies and healthcare providers care little about those who cannot afford their high cost, and those that can afford it with difficulty won't join together and refuse to accept their exploitation.

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Hurricane Ike: Bad Insurance Winds Blowing

Deborah Senn | Posted 09.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Insurance Industry, Hurricane Insurance, Hurricanes, Insurance, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Ike Gulf Coast, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike Texas, Insurance Companies, Business News
Deborah Senn

Thousands of Texas Gulf Coast storm victims who are now picking up the pieces after Hurricane Ike may be in for a shock when they file insurance claims.

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Told Ya, Insurers Are The Next Wall Street Sink Hole

Jamie Court | Posted 09.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, John McCain, Insurance Companies, Dow Jones Industrials, Wall Street, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News
Jamie Court

Remember how incredulous those CNBC Wall Street denizens were when I suggested a few weeks back that insurers' investment losses, particularly in the subprime mortgage mess, would hit the Dow?

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McCain Secretly Plans New Tax on Middle Class

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Companies, John McCain, Tax Increase, Michigan, Straight Talk Express, Middle Class, New York Times, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Tax Credit, Barack Obama, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

McCain intends to tax workers for the value of health insurance that they receive from their employers. Really. It's not included in the description of his plan on his web site.

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Remember the Alamo

Tom Bell | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Insurance Companies, Free Speech Police, Healthcare Veterans, Free Speech San Antonio, Healthcare Protest, Universal Healthcare, Free Speech Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Veterans Health Care, Healthcare, Healthcare Crisis, Home News
Tom Bell

Some people object to this healthcare because they think it's socialized medicine. It's not. I know because I, like every other veteran who uses the V.A. Medical System, am treated under a socialized medical program.

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"What Kind Of A Nation Are We?" -- Congress Must Make Access to Care a Top Priority

Rep. Steve Kagen | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Cover the Uninsured Week, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Rep. Steve Kagen

I've refused to accept the health care benefits offered to me until everyone I represent has the same offer made to them.

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Social Security Choking On Paperwork From Insurance Companies

New York Times | MARY WILLIAMS WALSH | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Security System, Social Security, Insurance Companies, Social Security Administration, Business News

The Social Security system is choking on paperwork and spending millions of dollars a year screening dubious applications for disability benefits, acc...

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Are You In Therapy?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 03.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Insurance Industry, Therapy, Cost Therapy, Insurance Companies, Cost of Therapy, Price Therapy, Therapy Covered by Insurance, Hmo, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Not many people can afford therapy anymore. You may need it, want it, know that it will help you, but you have to be pretty comfortable financially to get it.

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Warren Buffett: Don't Bank On Double-Digit Returns

Fortune | Colin Barr | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, See's Candy, Insurance Companies, Netjets, Business News

Berkshire Hathaway had another excellent year in 2007, posting an 11% gain in net worth, CEO Warren Buffett said in Friday's annual report to sharehol...

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Ending Discrimination in Health Insurance

Rep. Steve Kagen | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Discrimination, Insurance Companies, Steve Kagen, No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act, Politics News
Rep. Steve Kagen

The grim reality is our Constitution does protect you against discrimination, until you become ill. My legislation puts discrimination where it belongs -- in the past.

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Revealed At Last! Obama's Secret Weapon Against The Oil, Drug & Insurance Companies...

Martin Lewis | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Walter Mondale, Blind Faith, Al Gore, Pharmaceutical Industry, Change, Oil Industry, Reality Check, John Kerry, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, George Mcgovern, Insurance Companies, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, 2008 Election, Politics News
Martin Lewis

...a winning smile. Here are some other winning smiles.

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That's America Baby

Leslie Griffith | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Education, Bush SCHIP, Terrorism Insurance, Insurance Companies, Children's Health Insurance, Schip, Politics News
Leslie Griffith

So here we are: living in a country that is so hated by the world and driven by it's own greed; lobbyists are spending millions fighting for higher deductibles on terrorism insurance.

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The 18 Year Old's Happy Birthday Insurance Policy

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.09.2007 | Living

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Karen Stabiner

Who's going to be enticed by $1,000 insurance policy for accidentally dying or losing a limb?

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A Very Blackwater Thanksgiving: Profiteers Are Wrecking Our Health and Destroying Our Security

Glenn W. Smith | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Companies, Private Health Care, Insurance, Private Contractors, Blackwater, Thanksgiving, Health Insurance, Blackwater USA, The Myth of Thanksgiving, Privitization, Politics News
Glenn W. Smith

The blackwatering of health care - putting the power in the hands of unaccountable, non-medical, private interests - has taken a deadly toll on our health and lives.

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Our Healthcare System Sucks

Doug Bremner | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics

Read More: Hospitals, Pfizer, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Doctors Groups, Health Care, Drug Companies, Politics News
Doug Bremner

I think that it is criminal that someone like Mitt Romney can sit there and say that we have universal healthcare because if you break your arm they are going to take you to the ER even if you don't have insurance.

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Even As They Criticize, Dems Taking Dollars From Health Care Industry

New York Times | RAYMOND HERNANDEZ | Posted 10.28.2007 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Industry, Health Care, 2008 Elections, Congress, Hmos, Insurance Companies, Democrats, 2008 Election, Politics News

In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry, eve...

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