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Insurers Speed Health Care Overhaul Preparations
By Tom MurphyThe nation's big insurers are spending millions to carry out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul even though there's a chance the wide-reaching law won't survive Supreme Court scrutiny.
March 22, 2012
Hyper FocusThe more you hyper focus your human and capital resources on one particular goal, the higher the probability is that you may achieve it.
March 22, 2012
Hartford Exits Annuities. Industry Shrugs.But the move may mean increased focus by consumers and financial advisors on a carriers ability to pay the guarantees embedded in an annuity contract.
March 22, 2012
Court Weighs U.S. Power over States in Health CaseFederal cash comes with strings. Now 26 states are telling the Supreme Court that President Barack Obama's health care law has stretched an old rule too far.
March 22, 2012
House Panel Approves Ryan Budget ProposalThe resolution would repeal PPACA and shift Medicare toward a define contribution model.
March 22, 2012
Holding Court (The New Yorker)To strike down the individual mandate portion of the health reform law, dissenting Justices would have to change underlying constitutional law.
March 22, 2012
IAIS Updates on G-SIFI Timetable, Could Be More Aligned with U.S. SIFIsIAIS calls itself a standard setter. Is FSOC one, now, with its power to designate an insurer as systematically important and subject to federal supervision and action, or is it the NAIC, here in the U.S? Or both?
March 22, 2012
McCarran Amendment Passes HouseThe House today passed legislation that included an amendment repealing the antitrust exemption for health insurers contained in the McCarran-Ferguson Act.