Journalists were shuttled off to the women's page, doctors to pediatric medicine, and lawyers to behind-the-scenes work such as real estate and insurance law.
The new insurance law, expected to take effect next month, will force policyholders, who in bankruptcy proceedings take precedence over holders of subordinated debt, to lose out first.
The DFS alleged that the companies violated state insurance law.
The health insurance law we passed last year will slow these rising costs, which is part of the reason that nonpartisan economists have said that repealing the health care law would add a quarter of a trillion dollars to our deficit.
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At the same time, none of the nearly two dozen financial, insurance and law firms seeking space that his firm tracks are looking to expand, and many are shrinking.
In short, once I sign health insurance reform into law, doctors and patients will have more control over their health care decisions, and insurance company bureaucrats will have less.
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Companies offering legal insurance might buy law firms to handle customers' claims, for example.
That's bad for our economy, it's bad for our country, and that's what we'll change when health insurance reform becomes law.
By encouraging people to buy health insurance, the law will protect people from the strange whims of those people in hospitals to set prices.
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Let people choose the deductible they want. n If an employer doesn't offer health insurance, the law prohibits a worker from buying his own Medical Savings Account.
Recent mishaps have drawn attention to how companies protect personal information, especially if they sell this information on to insurance firms, law enforcement agencies and possible employers.
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Even more so, anyone who has had to navigate the waters of business insurance or employment law can tell you entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart.
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But what every American should know is that once I sign health insurance reform into law, there are dozens of protections and benefits that will take effect this year.
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In creating this false right, EMTALA also fuels the animus of certain individuals against purchasing their own health insurance because the law created an emergency care safety net that is always available.
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This year, all lifetime limits on how much insurance companies cover if women get sick will be eliminated and the law bans insurance companies from dropping women from coverage when they get sick.
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And people have an added incentive to forgo health insurance because the law says they can wait until they are sick to buy coverage and still pay the same rates as though they had been covered all along.
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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected that an additional 32 million Americans will get insurance, and the law has already extended tax credits to small businesses for buying insurance and allowed many parents to keep their children on their health plan until their 26th birthday.
Chief Justice John Roberts peppered Verrilli with questions about how the law compelling everybody to buy health insurance was different than a law requiring people to buy cellular phones so they can call 911 in an emergency, or broccoli.
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Because the concept of employers offering health insurance is such a long standing institution in our country, the Affordable Care Act would have never passed into law had the drafters of the law ripped insurance from the employer market.
This would scrap the requirement that all Americans obtain insurance but leave in place the rest of the law, including two major insurance regulations: guaranteed issue and community rating.
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State Rep. Richard Smith, head of the insurance committee in the Georgia House, says state law requires any mandate on insurance companies to go through a special committee to study the impact.
State insurance commissioners generally refuse to allow arbitration clauses in insurance contracts, federal law be damned.
Differences in patent law and insurance plans have a big impact on drug firms.
It'll be against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a preexisting condition.
Under the law, insurance companies are already banned from denying coverage to children because of a pre-existing condition.
Premiums also increase when the law obliges insurance policies to cover more benefits.
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Under current law, insurance companies must issue a paper and electronic certificate when agreeing a policy with a vehicle owner.
Under this plan, it will be against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
However, Wright says, those in the military may get some protection from provisions relating to liability insurance added to existing law over the past decade.
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