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What Are Fixed Retirement Annuities?
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Marilyn Katz)
The BasicsAn annuity is a product that is marketed by an insurance company. It combines some features of life insurance with some features of investment products. This allows them to provide some benefits of both. A good product should be a safe inve... |
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Senate Finance Committee Reworks Health Care Reform Bill
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
SUZANNE PRATT: One-sixth of the U.S. economy is getting a make-over today on Capitol Hill. The Senate Finance Committee has taken up an historic reform of the nation's health care system. And before the legislation was out of the starting gate, it wa... |
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Why Senator Roberts opposes health care bill
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) pictured, a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, and a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today made the following remarks at the Finance Committee’s Mark-up of the “Ame... |
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Roberts will oppose Finance's health bill
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, a member of the Finance Committee, will vote against the panel's health care reform bill. It was supposed to be a bipartisan bill crafted by six Senate negotiators from both parties. But Roberts early on soured ... |
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Eastern Omaha, rural Nebraska have highest uninsured rates in state :Harold Reutter
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
In the Grand Island micropolitan area of Hall, Howard and Merrick counties, 14.7 percent of the population under the age of 65 has no health insurance.That's a higher average than the state as a whole, which has 12.7 percent of its population under a... |
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THV Working For You At 6:30: The Duggars & Health Care :Liz Massey
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
Every now and then we'll get a question into our newsroom from a THV viewer and we'll try and find the answer.For example, last week a viewer wanted to know what to do if a funeral procession comes by and you're on a six lane highway. Another viewer ... |
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Census numbers show 13% uninsured in city :JAMES CRAVEN
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
New U.S. Census data released Tuesday laid out the numbers of people with health insurance in 2008 and they didn’t look good locally.The census looked at cities with populations over 65,000, allowing New Britain to gain the dubious distinction of b... |
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Northeast Ohio Medical Industry and Hospital News
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
Northeast Ohio's big cities -- from Cleveland to Lorain -- report a higher rate of people lacking health insurance than the state and national averages, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Monday.Twenty-two percent of Cleveland's population... |
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No compassion for sick illegal immigrants
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
Working with the president, Democrats in Congress are doing everything they can to make sure no illegal immigrant gains any benefit from health insurance reform. Given the politics, you can hardly blame them. Joe Wilson isn’t the only conservative ... |
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Census Data Find Wide Gaps in Insurance Coverage in California
(Fri Sep 25th, 2009, by Chad)
Health insurance coverage rates vary widely among different areas of California, according to data released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau, the San Jose Mercury News reports.For example, only about one in 10 people lack health insurance in more aff... |