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Congressman Jim McDermott - Speeches - Universal Health Care
Not many years ago opponents and an army of lobbyists turned back the last great hope for real reform. We were told managed care in the marketplace would save the health care system. It never happened. All through the 1990s when the economy was hot, the number of Americans without health insurance went up. When the economy tanked under President Bush, the number of Americans without health care kept going down. How bad does it have to get? ... Madam Speaker, we already pay enough for universal health care in this country, but we are not getting it. The administration misleads the American people by having the Secretary of Health and Human Services say, and I quote, ``You are still taken care of in America. That certainly could be defined as universal coverage.'' The truth is that every other industrialized nation in the world has a universal health system except the United States. Half the bankruptcies in this country are due to health care costs. ... [Read More]
Insurance Product Approval: The Need for Modernization
TOP OF DOC We would like to now call on our first tag team. I understand by prior agreement, we have a division of time between the two distinguished commissioners, the Honorable Frank Fitzgerald, Commissioner of the Michigan Insurance Bureau, Office of Financial and Insurance Services, and the Honorable Lee Covington, Director, Ohio Department of Insurance on behalf of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. ... I am Bob Hunter, Director of Insurance for the Consumer Federation of America, and I served as Federal Insurance Administrator under Presidents Ford and Carter, and as Texas Insurance Commissioner. ... [Read More]
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Parents of MaineCare eligible children with incomes up to 200% of federal income levels (roughly $39,000 for a family of four) are now eligible for MaineCare insurance. Not all income and assets are counted. For example, if you have an asset like a house, car, or savings account, you still may be able to get coverage. ... Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and its network of appointed insurance producers/agents began selling DirigoChoice to small businesses and self-employed individuals beginning October 4. Coverage begins January 1, 2005. Marketing to individuals will begin in February with coverage starting April 1, 2005. Please click here for the list (PDF) of Anthem appointed insurance producers/agents. ... [Read More]
Reforming Insurance Regulation: Making the Reforming Insurance Regulation: Making the Marketplace More Competitive for Consumers
KANJORSKI. Nuclear destruction insurance, flood insurance, catastrophic insurance, terrorism insurance or reinsurance. And now, if you really look at the California wildfires, we are being called upon in the Federal Government to be a very, very large player, not in necessarily writing the policies, but picking up the cost of the losses, the inadequacies of State regulation, that action in California. At some point we might as well take jurisdiction of the insurance industry because we are in it, and we are in it in a very big way. Unfortunately, the Federal Government and the taxpayers are in insurance where we are not getting adequately compensated through premium payments; we are underwriters, if you will, where no one else will tread to bear. Wouldn't it be better if we had catastrophe insurance or casualty insurance that was national in scope, that they would get together and say, gee, we have got to come up with a policy to handle floods? And how they work that, instead of the F ... [Read More]
National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Meeting #3 Proceedings
MR. STEINHARDT: Well, I think in general -- this is not simply the forensic databases, but in general, the samples should only be drawn with informed consent, they should be closely held, they should only be used for the purposes for which the consent is given, there should be no other uses without informed consent of the individual, and I think we need to have laws that prohibit discrimination in employment, insurance, provision of medical care based on genetic information. ... [Read More]
EDWARD WILLIAM BROOKE Papers (Library of Congress)
EDWARD WILLIAM BROOKE A REGISTER OF HIS PAPERS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Prepared by Audrey Walker with the assistance of Allyson Jackson, Patrick Kerwin, Sherralyn McCoy, and Thelma Queen Manuscript Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 1998 *** ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION The papers of Edward W. Brooke (1919- ), lawyer, attorneygeneral of Massachusetts, and United States senator, were givento the Library of Congress in several installments by SenatorBrooke between 1978 and 1991. Copyright in the unpublished writings of Edward W. Brooke inthese papers and in other collections of papers in the custody ofthe Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public, exceptthat the use of these rights is reserved to the donor during hislifetime. Phonograph, video, and audio recordings have beentransferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and RecordedSound Division of the Library where they are identified as a partof these papers. Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplicati ... [Read More]
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