“Insurance” on The Daily Caller

About 21,000 Iowans received notice last week that their insurers would no longer provide their Medicare Advantage plans in 2011, a state agency said. (more)

The number of promises made by candidate Barack Obama and then broken by President Barack Obama is only surpassed by the promises made and broken by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats, so cataloging all of them would require a book, not a column. But cataloging them is important, so I’ll take a look at the ones that will most greatly impact our lives and wallets. Well, our money is long since gone, so our grandchildren’s wallets. (more)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – McDonald’s Corp may cut health insurance for its nearly 30,000 hourly workers unless U.S. regulators waive a requirement of new health care legislation championed by President Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported. (more)

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently issued its annual survey of employer-sponsored health benefits, declaring: “Family Health Premiums Rise 3 Percent to $13,770 in 2010, But Workers’ Share Jumps 14 Percent as Firms Shift Cost Burden.” That’s half-right — but the other half perpetuates a myth about employee health benefits that stands in the way of real health care reform. (more)

The move by some health insurance companies to scrap child-only policies has many questioning whether providers will try to circumvent provisions of the new health care reform law in the future. Politically, it has unearthed old tensions between the Obama administration and health insurances at a time when new provisions are being rolled out. (more)

Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrats’ efforts to trumpet their signature achievement before the midterm elections. (more)

Steeler Nation knows Troy Polamalu as the talented safety who led their team to two Superbowl championships.  The 29-year-old’s remarkable athletic prowess, however, is not his most valuable asset. (more)

While the month of August for many Americans ushers in the end of the summer, for our coastal regions it brings the peak of hurricane season. As a nation, this time of year is also filled with the memories of a tragic event that visited our coasts just five years ago: Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. History. (more)

The parents of six deceased U.S. soldiers are suing Prudential Financial, saying it paid paltry interest on military life insurance benefits while keeping more generous interest earnings for itself. (more)

Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms. (more)

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius could find herself pitted between top Democrats on Capitol Hill and state insurance commissioners over a key section of the health care overhaul. (more)

Week after week, I come here to bury Keith Olbermann, not to praise him. I mock his opinions, his verbal tics, his pompous demeanor and his orange face. But just for kicks, I’m going to try something different this week and see if I can find something to celebrate about this sad, angry little man who is wrong about everything. (more)

It’s happened far too often in the past few years. An economy in recession drives a business to lay off a valuable employee. Immediately, a number of questions enter his or her mind. Where will I find another job? Will unemployment assistance be enough? What about health insurance? (more)

LOS ANGELES – A former Los Angeles mortuary employee has been convicted of defrauding insurers by staging a fake funeral and attempting to cover it up by cremating a mannequin and cow parts she placed in the casket.
The U.S. attorney’s office said Monday that 67-year-old Jean Crump was found guilty of two counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud.
Prosecutors say she and three accomplices took out bogus death certificates, purchased a burial plot, buried an empty casket and staged a funeral, then billed $1.2 million to insurance companies.
They say that when insurers investigated, Crump and her cohorts exhumed the coffin, filled it with a mannequin and cow parts and cremated it.
Her accomplices have pleaded guilty in the scam. Crump is to be sentenced Nov. 29. (more)

AUSTIN, Tex. — There are more uninsured residents of Texas — 6.1 million and counting — than there are people in 33 states. The state’s elected officials might be expected, therefore, to cheer a federal health care law that is likely to deliver billions of dollars from Washington to Austin and cover millions of low-income Texans (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first stage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is expected to provide coverage to about 1 million uninsured Americans by next year, according to government estimates. (more)

WASHINGTON—Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives defended valuations for credit-default swaps that were presented to American International Group Inc. during the financial crisis, saying they reflected actual market prices. (more)

Should business owners pay for others to sit on their couch? The current unemployment insurance policy not only serves its primary goal of providing a safety net between jobs, it also allows some people to sit on the couch while they refuse work. (more)

This week marked three months since passage of President Obama’s healthcare bill. At the time of passage, more than half of Americans polled opposed the bill. Now, nearly 100 days later, a new Rasmussen polls notes that 55 percent of Americans favor repeal while only 40 percent support the new law. (more)

In a shot across the bow to the insurance industry Tuesday, President Obama warned companies facing higher costs in part because of his health care law not to hike their prices, saying “we’ll be watching closely.” (more)