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The Senate Finance Committee has voted down a measure to require women to buy additional insurance for abortion services. Opponents said such a requirement would discriminate against women and raise privacy issues. The amendment, offered by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), failed on a 10-13 vote. Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine sided with the Democratic majority, while Democrat Sen. Kent Conrad ...

Getting around private insurance To the editor: Let's assume that the health care legislation coming out of Washington requires private insurance companies to cover all new enrollees no matter what their pre-existing conditions. Once that becomes law, no healthy person really needs health insurance. You can save the money you would spend to buy coverage and use that money to pay for your ...

The health-insurance excise tax that’s part of a Senate Finance Committee bill has been touted as a tax on “Cadillac” plans, but it might affect employers who think of their plan as more of a Chevy with a few nice options.

High street law firms face damaging increases in insurance premiums as a result of mortgage fraud and mounting complaints from the public.

Minnesota filed suit today against two out-of-state companies for selling allegedly fraudulent health insurance coverage to thousands of uninsured people.

Once touted by the president as essential in "keeping insurance companies honest," the so-called "public option" was blasted by Senate Republicans and moderate Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday.

A look at key issues in the health care debate: THE ISSUE: Are consumer-run co-ops a realistic alternative to a new government-run insurance option? THE POLITICS: The Democratic push for a government-run insurance plan to compete in the marketplace is running... Sponsored Topics: Insurance - Health care - Health - Cooperative - Business

A look at key issues in the health care debate: THE ISSUE: Are consumer-run co-ops a realistic alternative to a new government-run insurance option?

A column two weeks ago on New York State's two new insurance laws elicited some interesting follow-up questions. Here's a sampling: Dear Carrie: My 27-year-old, unmarried daughter moved to Rhode Island from New York last November to get a job. She pays for her own health coverage. Under the new law, would she be able to go back on my insurance plan until she is 29? If so, could she go back on my ...

NEW YORK -- Ethiopian farmers are buying drought insurance with a muscular currency: their own labor. The experiment, using a...