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Sharp insurance cost increase for some retirees

Small business owners have health care questions
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — According to the White House council of economic advisers, just 49 percent of firms with 4 to 9 employees and 78 percent of employers with 10 to 49 employees offered any type of health insurance in 2008.

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Knowledge-Sharing Technology Could Boost Insurance Underwriter Recruiting
The shortage of experienced property/casualty insurance underwriters is growing as senior underwriters retire and the issue is keeping carrier executives up at night, according to an industry …

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Sharp insurance cost increase for some retirees
Houston’s city council discussed an impending surge in the cost of health insurance for City of Houston retirees

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Dad Wins Fight for Son’s Health Coverage

HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM AND AFRICAN AMERICANS, WEEK OF MARCH 25-31, 2010
After a year-long debate to bring health insurance reform to the American people, the new law takes effect extending new support and benefits to consumers and ending some of the insurance company’s most abusive practices.

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High-risk insurance pools face start-up hurdles
A volunteer at a Midvale senior center where she recently taught a 90-year-old to navigate Facebook, Sherri Park is well-versed on the ins and outs of the new federal health overhaul.

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Dad Wins Fight for Son’s Health Coverage
A father fighting for insurance coverage for his newborn has finally gotten the response he wanted.

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When can I apply for the insurance pool to cover my pre-existing conditions?

I have no insurance for over 6 months.

Maryland House approves ‘health pool’

‘Go For it’: Obama Touts Health Care Law for Small Business
President Obama will go to Portland, Maine to tout the benefits of the tax credit offered to small businesses to help them cover their employees’ health insurance. Health insurance – Small business – Portland Maine – Insurance – Tax credit

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Pool dwindles for Bucks’ top job
Three men out of 60 applicants are finalists for the job of Bucks County’s chief operating officer. Bucks County commissioners will soon select a new chief operating officer to replace the county’s former top staffer, Dave Sanko, who resigned in September. County Finance Director and Acting Chief Operating Officer Brian Hessenthaler, Northampton Township Manager Robert M. Pellegrino and Guy L …

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Maryland House approves ‘health pool’
The Maryland House of Delegates has approved a preliminary measure that would allow the state to participate in a temporary national pool to make health insurance available to the uninsured.

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Former South Carolina Insurance Chief Kitzman Runs for Lieutenant Governor

State’s High Risk Pool Braces for Patients — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC
Officials at the state’s health insurance high risk pool are gearing up for what could be an influx of patients.

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Insurance Industry Already Finding Ways to Game New System
by Dan Froomkin The insurance industry’s attempt to weasel out of one of the few provisions of the new health care reform law that took effect immediately is a harbinger of what’s to come. In this case, the companies that were balking at covering sick children quickly relented under media, congressional and White House pressure. read more

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Former South Carolina Insurance Chief Kitzman Runs for Lieutenant Governor
South Carolina’s former state insurance director is running for lieutenant governor. Eleanor Kitzman announced she’s running as a Republican. The 53-year-old Columbia resident notes she’s the only …

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-04-01 20:35 RoundPoint buys residential loan stake from FDIC

Big health insurance rate hikes common
GRINNELL — Suzanne Castello, a former economics teacher at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, left her job and employer-paid insurance coverage to marry, work the farm and start a family with Barney Bahrenfuse.

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Covered by flood insurance? Think again
Flooding across the state has many wondering if the damage will be covered by their homeowners insurance. But more than likely, it will not.

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-04-01 20:35 RoundPoint buys residential loan stake from FDIC
NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) – A unit of RoundPoint Financial Group purchased a 50 percent stake in $490 million of residential mortgage loans from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the company said. The transaction, which closed on Thursday, is one in a series of residential loan pool sales offered by the FDIC, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said. RoundPoint and the FDIC will each …

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Big health insurance rate hikes common

Senate committee kills 6 coastal insurance bills, making overhaul unlikely
A Senate committee killed six coastal insurance bills on Wednesday, making it unlikely that the Legislature will pass any more homeowners insurance overhauls this year, lawmakers said.

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Larry Magid: Apple Enters Health Insurance Business
Apple on Thursday announced that it’s entering the health insurance business with a service called ‘iNsure.” Once the service launches later this year, people will…

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Big health insurance rate hikes common
GRINNELL — Suzanne Castello, a former economics teacher at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, left her job and employer-paid insurance coverage to marry, work the farm and start a family with Barney Bahrenfuse.

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Can someone convince me Car insurance isn’t a complete waste of money.?

I’m only just turning 18 so I’ve never bought insurance myself my whole life. My stance on insurance is this: You might not have full coverage, they’ll try to weasel out of paying you AND you might go for years without getting into an accident. In that time, if you pool up the money you’d have spent on car insurance you’d be able to pay for a car accident anyways.

Now I’m just pulling this out of my butt, I don’t have much of a basis on saying these things other than its just how i feel about it all, which is why I’m here.

What creases me the most out of all this is that i hear car insurance for people my age is high, they treat us all the same and were not given a chance. Apparently no one sees age discrimination if it were slapped on to their face. They force you to have car insurance in Ontario which to me sounds a little ridiculous because i thought insurance was a service, an offer provided by companies, not an obligatory contract the government makes you pay for even if you don’t want it.

You can see my clear disposition against it at all, quite frankly i about don’t wanna drive at all at this point. Though I want to be convinced because Canada’s winters are cold, and modern life today kind of requires you to have your own mode of transportation.

As Obama has suggested, should Americans whose companies don’t offer insurance be able to… ?

purchase health care and be part of a large pool that allows them to have full coverage health insurance that accepts preexisting illnesses…just like you get when you work for a major corporation?

People who currently do not have access to this type of insurance can’t get coverage if they have anything from asthma to cancer. And as businesses continue to reduce or drop health care benefits, more Americans will be unable to qualify for health insurance and will be financially devastated if they get a debilitating illness.

Isn’t this a good plan?
I’m not promoting Obama’s plan in total, but the reality is millions of Americans CANNOT get health insurance because of preexisting conditions. That is the issue I am addressing.

if i am owner/manager of a pool hall can i ask for “donations”at the door and make it B.Y.O.B.if over 21yr old

i signed a lease for a building and put pool tables,pinball machines,cherry masters and want to hire bands.I will not be selling alcohol.there is no cover charges but a 10.00 donation when we have a live band.
is this legal? if so do i need a special insurance coverage?