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The Importance of Home Flood Insurance
A flood insurance is separate from your usual homeowner’s insurance. It is provided by a few insurance companies and comes with its own terms and pricing. This kind of insurance is not mandatory for every homeowner but only to those who live in a designated flood area and has a home mortgage. These places are …
Trump immigration ban: Administration to deny visas to immigrants who can’t prove they can pay for health care
Washington — In its latest crackdown on legal immigration, the Trump administration announced Friday it is planning to reject visa applications from immigrants the government determines will not be able to pay for health insurance or cover health care costs in the U.S. The new requirement is set to go into effect November 3. In a late-night proclamation signed …
Tribal health insurance coverage rose, but still trailed U.S. average | Cronkite News
By Harrison Mantas, Cronkite News | Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 WASHINGTON – The number of people who showed up at at Indian Health Service facilities with health insurance rose from 64% of patients in 2013 to 78% in 2018, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The report said growth in coverage …
Scheer accused of breaking law, falsely claiming he was once an insurance broker
OTTAWA — The Liberals are asking Saskatchewan’s insurance industry watchdogs to investigate Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer for allegedly falsely claiming he once worked as an insurance broker in that province. Biographies of Scheer posted on the Conservative party’s current website and his past MP and leadership websites have repeatedly referred to the Conservative leader as …
GM reinstates health insurance for striking UAW members
United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant on Sept. 25, 2019 in Detroit. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – General Motors has reinstated health care benefits for its 48,000 workers who are on strike as contract talks with the United Auto Workers come closer to a tentative deal that …
Health insurance bills for state employees rise | Political News
DES MOINES — State employees who enroll in the government’s 2020 health insurance plan will pay slightly higher monthly premiums under either the Iowa-based or national provider networks included in a recommendation approved Monday by the Iowa Executive Council. The renewed 2020 health contract with Wellmark Blue Cross-Blue Shield calls for a 2.5 percent increase …
Otis Names New CFO as It Preps for Separation From United Technologies
Otis Elevator Co. hired a new finance chief as it gets ready to separate from industrial conglomerate United Technologies Corp. The Farmington, Conn.-based maker of elevators and escalators said Monday that Rahul Ghai is its new chief financial officer. Mr. Ghai joins from defense company Harris Corp. , which this year completed a combination with …
Warren and Sanders say Americans don’t like their health insurance. Polls don’t back that up.
Poll of the week: A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that when it comes to expanding coverage and lowering health care costs 55% of Democrats and Democratic leaning independents prefer to vote for a candidate who does so by building on the Affordable Care Act. Only 40% want do so by voting for voting …
New Health Care Program To Bring Insurance Premiums Down For High Country Communities – CBS Denver
SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – No where does it cost more for Coloradans to get health care than in the high country. On Monday, Gov. Jared Polis announced projections for health care costs to decrease 33% for some people who will be enrolled in a new program. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announces declining insurance premium …
How Kansas’ GOP Leaders Kept Thousands From Getting Health Insurance
By Lauren Weber | Kaiser Health News TOPEKA, Kan. — This was supposed to be the year Medicaid expansion finally happened in Kansas. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, elected in November, had run on the issue. She triumphed in a state that had gone for Trump in 2016 by more than 20 percentage points and replaced …
