It could be a very heavily regulated private insurer (or consortium of insurers) whose assets were invested in safe securities and dedicated to resolving quickly any financial problems.
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Unlike a viable, private sector insurer, the PBGC acts like the political animal it is.
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The problem, Iton says, is that the healthcare system is so fragmented that if one party a foundation or a government-funded program makes an investment to reduce asthma, the savings accrue to another party a private or public insurer.
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This provides for a government-run insurer to compete with private insurers, with the dual aim of driving down costs and providing cover for people who can find it nowhere else.
"The original decision of the OFT to investigate the private motor insurance market came after insurer claims that motor insurance premiums had risen by almost 40% to compensate for the increased costs of personal injury claims (whiplash) and other costs including those of credit hire, " said Martin Andrews of the CHO.
The latest changes say groups that identify themselves as religious and offer private insurance must allow women to receive contraceptive services directly from the insurer.
The system could be run for profit by the private sector, with the government, in effect, acting only as an insurer of last resort.
An insurer, you see, will assume that on average, those who buy private life insurance must be doing something dangerous that prompted them to worry about prematurely dying.
Short of canceling private contracts made under the law, Washington opted to step in and the salvage the insurer, but not the investment bank, making good its payments with taxpayer cash.
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Paul Danao, head of business development for American Imaging Management, part of insurer WellPoint, says self-referring doctors counter the price cuts by Medicare and private payers by trying to make it up on volume.
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