The president and Congress agree: Washington’s solution to 46 million uninsured Americans is to “mandate” that they all purchase health insurance from private companies, or — if the president’s view should prevail — a government-run …
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Supply Excellence — Health Insurance Costs to Double Again?
Although there are many moving parts in the equation (especially around the health care reform package making its way through the US Congress currently), health insurance premiums, which doubled in the last decade, are on track to …
ND exec: Health insurance changes would jack up costs, force …
ND exec: Health changes would boost costsBISMARCK, ND — The president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota says health care reform measures in Congress would accelerate increases in insurance costs.
I Luv SA: Researching The Minority Mortgage Meltdown: Can The Fed …
As you’ll recall, as part of the crusade against “racist” redlining, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), passed by Congress in 1975 and implemented by the Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation C, tracks whether lending institutions …
Marcy Winograd: Before We Pass Health Insurance Reform, We Must Do …
In Congress, I will work to support affordable prices on biologics, so that victims of cancer, HIV, diabetes, Parkinsons, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis can afford the medicine they need to stay alive.
U.S. Has Right to Require Insurance, White House Says …
Can Congress force people to buy health insurance ? The White House says yes.
Villainous Company: Insurance Companies: "If You Misrepresent our …
Some companies noted last week that Congress’ plans to mandate that everyone buy health insurance include only weak penalties. The plans also make insurers take on customers who are already sick. If you’re young and daring, …
Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » How A Health Insurance Mandate …
The proposals now before Congress would require just about everyone to buy health insurance or to get it through their employers — which would generally result in lower wages. In other words, millions of people would be compelled to …
Lesson for Democrats: substitute 'Israel' for 'insurance industry'
Reports just leaked from a closed-door meeting where insurance industry lobbyists frantically warned Republican members of Congress that it was not in their interest to “ever vote for this thing” and said supporting reform is like …
E.D. Kain – American Tory – Interesting fact of the day: Insurance …
It was Congress, after all, that in 1945 overrode a Supreme Court ruling that the insurance industry was indeed part of interstate commerce and thus subject to federal antitrust laws. Lawmakers that year passed the McCarran-Ferguson Act …