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7 items for which you should consider a home warranty
On some items, buying a warranty is well worth the extra money spent.
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Risky Moves in the Game of Life Insurance
Some insurance companies’ complex, and mostly hidden, maneuvers to increase profits for shareholders may end up costing taxpayers and policyholders.
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The bank moved to seize a widow’s home. But it didn’t tell her the loan was insured
For more than a decade after her husband died, Laura Coleman Biggs paid her mortgage to a Bank of America subsidiary. She was never told, even as she was weeks from losing her home, that her husband had actually protected her against foreclosure.
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Startup Zenefits Raises $500 Million at $4.5 Billion Valuation
Zenefits, a cloud software startup that helps small companies manage health insurance, compensation and other matters related to their employees, has raised a stunningly huge $500 million series C investment at an implied valuation of $4.5 billion. The investment brings Zenefits’ total capital raised to north of $581 million and comes only two years into its life. Investment firms Fidelity Management and TPG led the round.
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House bill would require gun owners to have liability insurance
House Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) has introduced a bill that would require gun owners to carry liability insurance. The Firearm Risk Protection Act, unveiled Friday, would require gun buyers to have liability insurance coverage before being allowed to purchase a weapon, and would impose a fine of $10,000 if an owner is found not to have it. Service members and law enforcement officers, however, would be exempt from the requirement.
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Will these big Obamacare rates get approved?
Many of the proposed rate increases of 10 percent or more for Obamacare health insurance plans have been revealed.
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Protect access to medications
Drug co-payments are rising — but D.C. has an option to limit them.
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Obamacare and the courts: Doomsday machine
MY COLLEAGUE adheres to a theory about why the text of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, clearly authorises federal subsidies for...
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Rep. Sander Levin schools willfully ignorant Rep. Paul Ryan over Obamacare lies
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) had one of his unscheduled Obamacare bashing hearings this week. He continued to misinform with an opening speech that showed that ...
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Feds Can’t Verify $2.8 Billion in Obamacare Subsidies
The federal government cannot verify nearly $3 billion in subsidies distributed through Obamacare, putting significant taxpayer funding “at risk,” according to a new audit report.
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Bernie Sanders: Single-payer 'Medicare for all'
Bernie Sanders isn't satisfied with the Supreme Court's affirmation last week of President Barack Obama's health care law.
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Aetna Announces $37 Billion Merger With Health Insurance Rival Humana
If the deal passes antitrust scrutiny, it would be the largest such acquisition in the insurance industry. It's the latest sign of consolidation in health insurance in the wake of Obamacare.
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Why A French Insurance Company Signed The Stupidest Contract Ever Written
OK, there's been some amazingly stupid contracts written over the years including more than a few marriage ones. But among people who really ought to know what they're doing this one from France probably does take the biscuit. It's a hybrid life insurance/savings product and there's nothing very strange or [...]
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Insurance Companies Seek Big Increases for 2016
Health insurance companies around the country are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or more...
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'Hobby Lobby' Is About Blocking Contraception Access, Not Religious Liberty
Hobby Lobby supporters claim that they aren't out to take away contraception, just to keep religious employers from paying for it. Now that the Obama administration has made that possible, however, they are still throwing fits.
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The real story behind Obamacare’s double-digit rate hikes
I've spent the past few days talking to experts about what to expect from Obamacare rates in 2016. And they do expect premiums to rise faster this year, largely because health-care costs are going up faster, too. But they caution against reading too much into the little information currently available — and they don't expect the huge rate increases making headlines now to be the norm.
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An Explanation of Medicaid and Its Expansion in Some States
Some answers to common questions about Medicaid and the program's expansion under the federal health care reform law: ..
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Anthem to Buy Cigna to Create Biggest U.S. Health Insurer
Anthem Inc said on Friday it would buy Cigna Corp in a deal valued at $54.2 billion, creating the largest U.S. health insurer by membership.The deal — the biggest ever in the health insurance.
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Medical marijuana users face higher insurance rates, even if they don't smoke it
Many medical marijuana users in Canada pay a high price due to their prescriptions, because life insurance policies consider them smokers — no matter how they consume the drug. Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled patients with legal prescriptions have the right to take marijuana in any form: including smoking it, using edible products, or using cannabis-infused teas and oils.
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Whistleblower Says Medicare Advantage Plans Padded Charges In Home Visits
Medicare Advantage health plans are privately run, but reimbursed by Medicare. A Texas lawsuit claims that, to inflate charges, 30 Advantage plans in 15 states exaggerated how sick patients were.
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