The rebuilding has been delayed by continued aftershocks, red tape and battles over insurance payouts.
Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.
Right now only 21 states have any review power over insurance rates, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Residents in a Berkshire town badly affected by the 2007 floods have met industry representatives and politicians over insurance concerns.
Even more worrying is a stand-off between America and Malaysia over insurance.
Questions over insurance liability might hamper the growth of pick-up services.
This also encourages over-insurance and over-consumption of health care.
First, it helps tackle one of the greatest distortions in America's health system: the subsidies given for employer-provided health insurance, which encourage over-insurance.
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And inter-agency feuding has been growing: witness the spats between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other regulators over deposit insurance and their treatment of Citigroup.
And by being able to buy it through a health insurance exchange, you will then be part of a broader group that has leverage over the insurance companies and will be able to get a better deal for you.
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In Texas, the battle is over unemployment insurance, and the issue has made its way into the governor's race.
Tenet itself was born in 1995 after a scandal over medical insurance fraud by its predecessor, National Medical Enterprises.
We disagreed over whether insurance companies should be held accountable when they deny people care or arbitrarily raise premiums.
But first, let me say a few words about the latest development in the debate over health insurance reform.
Moreover, as Mark Pauly points out, here Medicare has an advantage over private insurance, by virtue of punitive power of federal law.
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This argument, rather than the subsidiary battle over health insurance, is the one that the Conservative Party ought to make its priority.
The fight was over which insurance carrier, if any, would indemnify the State for the cost of cleaning up this toxic waste site.
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She has also laboured to settle disputes over water allocation in the agricultural eastern half of the state, and to resolve fights over unemployment insurance.
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The prices of these drugs in Europe are often dramatically lower than in the U.S., which the report says could be because of the negotiating power of single-payer systems over private insurance.
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We need that same spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship when it comes to finally passing reform that will bring down the cost of health care and give Americans more control over their insurance.
When Japan's Orix Corp. began selling life insurance over the phone last autumn, rivals groaned.
With the bull run in stocks over, life insurance and annuities could suffer, too.
Mr. Geithner succeeded in bailing out Citigroup and prevailed over Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair.
Government has been amassing control over the health insurance market for decades.
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But that will cost big money and any such return would have put me closer to -or even over- the insurance cap.
Now, the proposal I put forward gives Americans more control over their health insurance and their health care by holding insurance companies more accountable.
The PSNI officer in charge of the G8 operation, ACC Alistair Finlay, said he was confident that the unions' concerns over safety and insurance would be addressed.
Unless Obama Care intends to take over the health insurance industry, and intends to build Federal hospitals, it cannot constitutionally force American Citizens to purchase services from private institutions.
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Other investors have ridden the MBIA roller coaster as the company has skirted death over its overwhelming insurance claims, then negotiated settlements with mortgage underwriters and securities issuers like Flagstar it says misled it about the quality of the underlying loans it insured.
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For the past four weeks lawyers for Bank of America and MBIA Inc. have been sparring in a crowded second-floor courtroom in downtown New York City over whether state insurance regulators should have let MBIA split itself in half in back 2009, separating its business of insuring mortgage-backed securities from its business of insuring municipal bonds.
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