RICHMOND, Va. — The doctor doesn’t look like much of a crusader, bent over the frail frame of 90-year-old Alberta Scott.

The bill includes a new public insurance plan that would pay providers and hospitals rates negotiated by the Health and Human Services secretary. Liberals had pushed for payment rates to be tied to Medicare, which they argued would mean lower costs to consumers and the federal government.

I love the magical thinking of the Democrats. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in her Oct. 29 speech about her health care bill that “affordability for our middle-class that lower costs for every patient, reins in premiums, co-pays and deductibles, limits out of pocket costs, and lifts the cap on what insurance companies cover each year.

As part of the stimulus bill passed early this year, the federal government started paying a big chunk of the health insurance premiums for recently unemployed workers.

Signature gathering begins this week on an initiative scheduled for the 2010 ballot which will fix an inconsistency in the law, expand a discount, and lower auto insurance rates for millions of California consumers who continually maintain auto insurance coverage.

This may seem like old news but we are in a bit of an economic bind these days. Front and center in this bind is the home foreclosure crisis which is gripping America from coast to coast.

You mentioned that anyone with an American Express card can pay $20 per rental for $75,000 worth of primary (not secondary) coverage. How does it work?

Under PetFirst’s Adoption Program, the new pet parents can sign up for
health-insurance plans providing up to $1,000 of annual accident and illness
protection.

A Neenah lawmaker wants to repeal recent changes to the state’s auto insurance laws. Senator Mike Ellis says provisions in the state budget required minimum amounts of coverage for all drivers in Wisconsin and they’re driving up insurance rates.

Democratic aides say Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who does not have the 60 votes needed to kill a filibuster on his health care bill, could end up falling back on an alternative plan pushed by Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe.