Archive for July 28th, 2009

Legacy Locker – life insurance for your online identity

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Have you ever wondered what might happen if you were to somehow become unable, be it sick or dying, to login to your many internet accounts such as banking or.

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Former health insurance exec champions reform

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

… for free care when he visited a mobile clinic on the fairgrounds in Wise County, Va., in July 2007, when he still worked as an insurance executive. …

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The White House - Blog Post - A Tele-Town Hall on Health Insurance …

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

And as consensus builds for comprehensive health insurance reform, we are closer than ever before to passage thanks to groups like AARP, an organization which has been at the forefront of the fight for reform. …

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Matthew Filipowicz: Health Insurance Industry Releases Ad Thanking …

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Montana Senator Max Baucus has made some health insurance executives very, very happy. As you may have heard, the Senate Finance Committee, which Baucus chairs, has crafted a “bipartisan”, or “crappy”, compromise leaving out both a …

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The new new deal in Netherlands health insurance « ACCUMULATING …

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

It’s come to my attention that if I had moved to the Netherlands from the US this year, rather than 10 years ago, I would have saved less (in percentage terms) on my health insurance premiums. That’s because back in 1999, I was getting …

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FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Baucus Bill’s Bad Math

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

The bigger news, rather, is that Baucus’s bill will not contain an employer mandate — a requirement that employers provide health insurance to their employees — even though it does contain an individual mandate. …

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A Market for Health Reform

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

This is what the health insurance exchange is designed to do. It is arguably the single most important element of health-care reform, because it is the …

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Proposed tax on ‘Cadillac’ coverage questioned

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

The Associated Press
Senators scrambling to pay for a $1 trillion health care overhaul are leaning toward taxing health insurance companies on policies costing more than $25000 …

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Health care reform: We need a public health insurance option and …

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Examiner.com
We need to make health insurance coverage as near universal as possible. Every economically advanced nation has managed to do this except the United States. …

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Sarah Lovinger: One Doctor Goes To Great Lengths For Universal …

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Today and tomorrow, as he meets with lawmakers, he will try to persuade them to pass a universal health insurance bill. He has certainly earned the chance to meet with our elected officials and their staff people. …

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