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• Healthcare Bill Cedes Too Much to Insurance Industry

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  The 150,000 member National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union and professional organization of registered nurses in the U.S., criticized the healthcare bill now advancing in the U.S. Senate saying it is deeply flawed and grants too much power to the giant insurers. It is tragic to see the promise from ...
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• [Abu Hussein] and the First Family Arrive in Hawaii

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  President Barack Obama left the cold weather and bitter politics of Washington, D.C. behind Thursday as he and the first family arrived on Oahu for a ten day Christmas vacation. The president, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha boarded Air Force One in route to Oahu just a few hours after the U.S. ...
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• Senate OKs health care bill in victory for Obama (AP)

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
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• Flush with historic victory, Obama vows to finish the job

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 24 (IANS) As the US Senate passed a historic $871 billion health care overhaul bill Thursday bringing President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority “incredibly close to reality”, he vowed to finish the job soon.“With today’s vote, we are now incredibly close to making health ...
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• AIG puts off Chartis IPO

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) , Amer Intl Group (AIG) , Federal Reserve American International Group ( AIG ) is holding onto its property/casualty division for a while. It originally planned to unload 20% of Chartis (formerly named AIU) via an initial public offering or through a private transaction ...
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• The malignant agenda of the Republican Party

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Sheldon Whitehouse addresses Republican corporate creeps.
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• Aon Sees Strong Reinsurance Profits on Low Catastrophe Losses

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: International markets , Good news Third quarter underwriting results for the reinsurance industry exceeded expectations. Unusually low catastrophe losses -- for the quarter that dominates hurricane season -- were largely responsible for this result, according to a report by Aon ( AON ). Reserve ...
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• Drug Industry Girds for Rise in Its Share of Overhaul

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Facing last-minute liberal resistance in Congress, the drug industry is bracing for an increase in its share of the cost of the proposed health care overhaul beyond the $80 billion over 10 years that it had negotiated with the White House, industry lobbyists say. ... Now, after narrowly beating back some Senate ...
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• The Oligarchy Wins Again!

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  A 40-vote Republican minority in the United States Senate controls the destiny of all legislation aimed at addressing the nation’s most pressing needs after eight miserable years of Republican... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Dropping the Bomb on Health Care

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 432
  by Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and author of Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit from the Economic Collapse As business owners undergo the yearly ritual of passing through eye-popping health insurance premium increases to their employees, it’s easy to understand why any attempt at health insurance ...
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• Somebody is Having a Happy Christmas

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 802
  Via HuffPo healthcare reform is turning out very well for some . The S&P Healthcare Index rose 1.4 percent, while the Morgan Stanley Healthcare Payor stock index rose 3.6 percent. The S&P Managed Health Care index rose 4.6 percent. "All in all, relative to the last version of health reform issued by ...
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• Insurers Feeling the Urge to Merge in 2010

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  M&A will likely dominate the insurance and reinsurance market next year, as stronger balance sheets inspire firms to look for growth through acquisitions. Following the September 2008 financial crisis, reinsurers lost around 18% of their capital , but it hasnt taken long for the carriers to stage a comeback. Now, ...
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• A Christmas Gift for the Insurers?

  
  Swampland — Authority: 720
  Im a little late on this, but had to share the latest evidence that investors in private health insurance companies feel they prevailed in their lobbying efforts over the Democratic health care bill. Heres what happened after the Senate voted to break the Republican filibuster on Monday, according to the AP:Shares of ...
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• Health Care Stocks Jump for LieberCare Joy

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 716
  6-month chart (source: Google Finance) How have the major health insurance company stocks performed since Joe Lieberman announced he’d filibuster the public option? From Oct. 27 to Friday’s market close: Coventry Health Care, Inc. is up 31.6 percent; CIGNA Corp. is up 29.1 percent; Aetna Inc. is up 27.1 ...
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• Bernie keeps it real: the insurance cos are laughing all the way to the bank

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 509
  On Morning Joe just before the close, Sen. Bernie Sanders made it plain: “the insurance companies and the drug companies are going to make out like bandits,” under the Senate’s version of healthcare “reform,” and he added, “they’re laughing all the way to the bank.” Asked how the American people are ...
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• Capitol Insurance Companies Selected as a Finalist for A.M. Best’s 2009 E-Fusion Award

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 446
  
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• Thousands Wasted on Pointless Insurance

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  People could be wasting thousand of pounds on useless and expensive insurances, says the new Which? Money Saving Handbook.Although some insurances are must-haves, such as buildings insurance, contents insurance, life insurance, and car insurance, others are often completely unnecessary, have high obstacles to climb ...
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• Obama’s Senate Health Care Bill: A “Uniquely American” Idiocy

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 716
  photo: geekstinkbreath via Flickr In Copenhagen last week, when Senator James Inhofe tried to sell reporters on his climate change denialism, the European press corp showed the American media how to take its job seriously: “You are an idiot,” one German reporter said to his face. Sometimes, that’s what ...
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• Supertax on bonuses unfair on fund managers in banks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • HMRC guidelines exempts stockbrokers and asset managers • Supertax proposal unlikely to breach Human Rights Act The government was being warned last night that its supertax on bonuses could discriminate against fund managers and private equity experts working inside banks, as more guidance was issued about ...
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• Republicans’ Criticism of Healthcare Bill Pretentious

  
  The Practical Vegetarian Weblog — Authority: 91
  Even though the Democrats’ attempts to reform health care is wrought with problems, the Republicans’ bashing of the Democrats and the proposed legislation has more of an air of hypocrisy than sincerity and appears more pretentious than real. There is no argument that the health reform that many of us voted for is ...
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