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House Passes Huge GOP Budget Cuts, Opposing Obama

WASHINGTON -- In a prelude to a summer showdown with President Barack Obama, Republicans controlling the House pushed to passage on Friday a bold but politically dangerous budget blueprint to slash social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid and fundamentally restructure Medicare health care for the...

Intrigue, Brinksmanship Woven Into Hidden World of Pirate Ransoms

When Tunisia's transport ministry announced earlier this month that it had secured the release of the hijacked ship the Hannibal II and its 31 crew members, authorities released few details other than saying it had paid a $2 million ransom to the Somali pirates. These kinds of payments are now so common that they've given...

If It Rains April 8, You Could Have a Free Car

April showers bring May flowers. April downpours may bring free cars. If it rains more than 1 inch on the morning of April 8, a Florida car dealership will let any customer who bought a car in March have the vehicle for free. "Every car dealer advertises the same way," Jeff King, vice president and general manager Bozard...

111 Charged in Medicare Scams Worth $225 Million

MIAMI -- Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud Thursday, part of a massive nationwide bust that snared more suspects than any other in history. More than 700 law enforcement agents fanned out to arrest dozens of people accused of illegally...

Opinion: Waiver-ing on Health Care Reform

When the House passed health reform in March, Joe Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, responded with fulsome praise. "This is an achievement that will rank among the highest in our national experience," he said. Among other things, he said, the law would put "an end to the...

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Report: How Ford's Sync could lower your insurance

How far are you willing to go to save a few bucks on your auto insurance?

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David Thomson: 'Social Security' Could Be the Future of Insurance

There have been many instances in the news of late of consumers and corporations in trouble as a result of social media antics.

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Thomas A. Bass: The Double Game of the U.S. Health Insurance Companies

In the novels of doctor-turned-writer Robin Cook, health-insurance companies are so predatory that they not only charge outsized fees but kill you.

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ObamaCare Isn't Just About Health Care - It's a Winning Jobs Issue

Massachusetts is the only state in the country where you don't have to worry about losing your health insurance if you lose your job, and it will remain that way if Mitt Romney, the man who signed that Massachusetts bill into law, gets elected president.

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Jim T. Miller: How to Choose a Medicare Advantage Plan

I'll be 65 in a few months -- Medicare enrollment age -- and am interested in getting a Medicare Advantage plan to cover my health care and prescription drugs.

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06/03/12 Insurity Introduces New Forms Authoring Tool Source: Allegheny Energy Inc SAN DIEGO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--At the IASA Annual Conference, Insurity, Inc., a provider of core insurance processing software and services, today launched its new standards-based Forms Authoring Tool to expand the capabilities and benefits of Insurity's App Factory Configurator.
06/03/12 Study examines federal crop subsidies Source: Echo Press - Alexandria MN An analysis of over a million government records pertaining to federal crop insurance has found that in 2011 more than 10,000 individual farming operations have received federal crop insurance premium subsidies ranging from $100,000 to more than $1 million apiece.
06/03/12 New farm bill would end direct payments to farmers Source: Daily Herald - Arlington Heights IL WASHINGTON A program that puts billions of dollars in the pockets of farmers whether or not they plant a crop may disappear with hardly a protest from farm groups and the politicians who look out for their interests.
06/03/12 INSURANCE - Employee Benefits Account Manager for... Source: The Puyallup Herald - Puyallup WA Employee Benefits Account Manager for Tacoma Ins Firm. Duties include: New/renewal client account support; ER meetings and field work; tech proposal/rate analysis; create tech reports & presentation materials; maintain client database.
06/03/12 Older workers learn new trades Source: Today Online - Singapore When Mr Joe Burklund from Iowa lost his job at the depths of the recession in 2009 after 30 years in the advertising and marketing industry, he never imagined another career.