Posts Tagged: health care reform
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Apr 01, 2010
No CommentsWhat were people talking about at the NAIC Spring meeting? Annuities, Climate Risk, Health Care Reform…
The NAIC’s Spring meeting in Denver last week offered several informative sessions. As anticipated, many discussions focused on “hot topics” currently facing the insurance industry including the marketing of annuities, policy form readability standards, the Climate Risk Disclosure Survey, and issues affecting seniors such as long-term care insurance and Medicare Supplement insurance. Some highlights for...
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Mar 22, 2010
No CommentsHealth Care: News from the “Hill”
With the debate and subsequent House vote on H.R. 3590, “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” completed last night, we await the final enactment of its provisions this week with the ultimate signing of the bill expected this week. The work continues of course, with H.R. 4872 “Reconciliation Act of 2010” to be debated...
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Jan 21, 2010
No CommentsHealthcare: Capitol Hill awaits Brown
With Congress settled back in Washington this month, the focus quickly returned to what was considered to be the matter at hand: blending the current health care reform proposals from 2009. The Senate and House versions, noted in the media for their differences, were up for debate and compromise. While there continued to be controversy...
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Dec 31, 2009
No CommentsHealth Insurance Reform: Debate and Compromise Lies Ahead in 2010
Media attention has focused extensively on the various federal health care proposals, revisions, trade-offs, as well as both partisan and non-partisan debate on Capitol Hill over the past year as the nation moves closer towards a compromise package of solutions, some less than ideal, some less than the original vision articulated in the 2008 campaign,...
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Dec 21, 2009
No CommentsState Legislatures: A Look at Some Pending Proposals
With so much media focus on all the health care reform debates and political discussion on Capitol Hill recently, it’s easy to overlook some of the ongoing state legislative activity. Earlier this month Michigan introduced multiple automobile insurance consumer protection bills including ones addressing no-fault rate approvals, tort recovery, automobile insurance policies cancellations and premium...
