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Posts Tagged ‘insurance’

• Subsidizing the Golden and Sunshine States

  Posted February 1st, 2010 at 4:30pm in Protect America with 1 comments

  In the February 1, 2010 edition of StateNet Capitol Journal, Lou Cannon notes that “only 12% of Californians with homeowners insurance also have quake insurance” as offered by the California Earthquake Authority. Cannon cites premiums costing “several hundred dollars a year and the deductible is 15 percent of the home’s insured value” as the [...] More

• Democrats’ Health Care Plans Come at High Cost to the Young

  Posted January 29th, 2010 at 10:49am in Health Care with 6 comments

  Extending health care to the uninsured and those who can’t get coverage for pre-existing conditions is the epicenter of Democrats’ health care bills, but achieving that goal requires adding younger, healthier Americans to insurance pools to hold down costs. And achieving coverage for sicker populations comes at a significant price to young Americans, according to [...] More

• Insurers Just Saying “No” To TARP?

  Posted May 18th, 2009 at 4:54pm in Enterprise and Free Markets, Ongoing Priorities with 5 comments

  What if they ran a bailout program and no one came? Last year, the Bush Administration Treasury Department opened TARP’s doors to insurance companies, a number of which promptly filed for aid. Last week, the applications of six of those were approved, totalling some $22 billion. But rather than rush to [...] More

• Californians to Pay for California Fires?

  Posted July 11th, 2008 at 10:40am in Protect America with 0 comments

  In what can only be described as a rare occurrence, two events occurred that show there is still hope when it comes to disaster management in the United States. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed placing an insurance surcharge on every California home and business that would raise roughly [...] More