They receive substantially less from the government to treat Medicare patients just 81 percent of the private insurance rate.
So I think what has provided health care with the most momentum, quite honestly, in the past several weeks, are the insurance company rate increases.
Like other banks, Barclays was heavily involved in manipulating LIBOR and in the mis-selling of payment protection insurance and interest rate swaps.
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Separately, RBS is having to pay compensation for two mis-selling scandals: mis-selling payment protection insurance, and mis-selling specialist insurance called interest rate swaps to small businesses.
Because if only sick people buy insurance, but insurers are forced to accept all comers and charge healthy and sick people the same rate, insurance would rapidly become too expensive for anyone to afford.
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Many observers have argued that skyrocketing health insurance premiums are responsible for the low rate of employer-provided health insurance in small companies.
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Never before has Congress cut back on extended unemployment insurance when the unemployment rate remains so high.
Nine months later, the largest malpractice carrier in the state was before the Insurance Commissioner seeking a rate increase.
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The insurance company declares a rate that they will pay, and the investments are a general obligation of the company.
Given the complexity of this specific vehicle, Mr. Harris recommends purchasing an insurance policy with a rate of return between 5% and 6.5%.
The five-year bonds, called India Development Bonds, came with insurance against exchange-rate risk and promises not to scrutinise the source of the investment.
It also plans to unshackle health-care costs from labor costs by freezing the amount employers pay into the system and shifting from income-based contributions toward a flat-rate health insurance premium.
But we also understand that you've got to fix the system so that people are able to get it at affordable rates and small businesses can afford to give their employees insurance at an affordable rate.
Rapid population growth, mainly, says Krugman. (Since 2007, the number of working age residents grew by 6.6%, nearly twice the national average.) Krugman also points out that some 10% of Texan workers earn the minimum wage or less, and a quarter of Texans have no health insurance, the highest rate in the country.
The yearly doctor dropout rate in private insurance exceeds 10% in many places, including New York.
You also may be able to get your title insurance reissued at a reduced rate.
Among other great benefits, members of FU are eligible for a low group rate on health insurance.
In addition, the rate of private insurance coverage was essentially unchanged in 2011 for the first time in a decade.
Mr Miliband's comments come a day after it emerged that four banks had mis-sold specialist insurance, known as interest rate swaps, to small businesses.
The California Department of Insurance found that the proposed rate increase was based on unreasonably high assumptions about the rate at which medical costs are increasing.
One of the lesser-discussed requirements written into the Affordable Care Act is the section that requires additional regulatory scrutiny on both the state and federal levels when an insurance company seeks a premium rate increase in excess of 10 percent.
The insurance company gave us an affordable rate -- we were looking for a very affordable plan.
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If a state insurance commissioner already has an effective rate review it will be the regulator doing the review, not the Feds.
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The two-year loan, secured against AIG's insurance businesses, carries an interest rate of LIBOR plus 850 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point).
To see why, we can look at the experiences of the 37 states that already give their insurance regulators the power to reject rate hikes.
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Listening to debate about the bill, one began to wonder how America's foundation had survived so long without legal protection from gay couples indulging in adjustable-rate mortgages and life insurance.
Why would Dosoretz want these patients, whose insurance pays less than half the Medicare rate?
From 1999-2004, GMAC's mortgage and insurance businesses enjoyed a compound annual growth rate of 25%, compared to 7% for the auto financing business.
Many at the time say that provided President Obama and Sebelius political momentum and ammunition to tell the story of excessive rate increases by the loathed insurance industry.
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That's because even if hospital A may charge more than hospital B for a particular service, your insurance company may have negotiated a lower rate with the apparently more expensive hospital.
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