If we're offering people health insurance and we're saying that people have to get health insurance ... we've got to make sure it's affordable.
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We did our best to boil things down and serve up the highlights (or, if you're an insurance executive, the lowlights).
His General Re- insurance acquisition closes by year-end, and it moves the locus of BRK from an investment house to a worldwide insurance empire.
There are many American engineers and programmers who are not just unemployed, but a better view is underemployed, meaning that they used to be an engineer and now they're selling insurance.
These hit the re-insurance business very hard.
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The only thing going on here, is that the Fed will remove money from Medicare, Health Insurance Companies, Drug Companies, Medical Device Providers, and other select groups with very good health insurance and re-distribute this money as either free health insurance (medicaid, from 0 to 133% of FPL) or heavily subsidized health insurance (from 134% to 400% of FPL).
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Players are part of a football club's assets, and as such we're covered by insurance.
And if you're providing health insurance to your employees, it gives you more predictability, more security, more stability.
But re-denomination insurance provides a huge incentive for countries to leave.
We're raising national insurance by 1% to protect our public services so that we can still spend more on health and more on education and more on policing.
Professor Taniuchi is bold in re-raising postal insurance and saving system privatization as both a symbolic and substantively important issue.
That's why we're fighting for health insurance reforms to address the crushing cost of health insurance for small businesses and families.
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"They're people with health insurance, but it's not covering the co-pays, the deductibles, some of the drug costs, the dental care that may be needed, the home services, " says Robert Blendon, who runs polling programs for the Harvard School of Public Health.
But at the same time, Berkshire Hathaway owns several large insurance entities, including General Re and Geico, so it may be interested in buying some of AIG's insurance.
And then all of a sudden, they say we're going to cut your insurance?
To keep the insurers whole, and accommodate new rules, the cost of insurance must get re-priced higher.
You're paying ungodly amounts for insurance, and it's not like the insurance I had when I was working.
Its closest competitor in reinsurance, Swiss Re, went into primary insurance through a number of acquisitions in the mid-1980s.
Insurance giant Munich Re recently reported that weather-related loss has quintupled in the United States in recent years.
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The experiment backfired and Swiss Re sold its primary-insurance business to Allianz and to another Swiss insurer, Winterthur, in 1994.
Putting some money in their pockets. (Applause.) We're extending and increasing unemployment insurance for 12 million Americans to help them weather this economic storm.
One is if you have insurance but you're going to get out-of-network hospital care.
And General Electric is exiting the business altogether by selling its insurance unit to Swiss Re.
Our kids can stay on our insurance until they're 26 years old because of health reform.
But if you have to buy your own insurance and you're not self-employed, you don't get any tax help.
Swiss Re's Mr Knoepfel sees insurance companies rushing to get into the business of helping clients assess carbon liabilities and assets.
People are more likely to buy health insurance when they're sick, or think they will get sick, and that makes them a higher risk.
If you've got health insurance that you're happy with through the private sector, then we are not going to force you to do anything.
Some of you supported efforts to provide insurance to children and let kids remain covered on their parents' insurance until they're 25 or 26.
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