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- Health Care With a Few Bucks Left ver
- China insurance companies Jan-Nov premium income 915.05 bln yuan …
- 3 Japanese nonlife insurance majors in merger talks : report
Health Care With a Few Bucks Left ver
New York Times United States
That includes direct health care programs like Medicare plus insurance for federal employees and the cost of excluding employer health-care contributions from workers’ taxable incomes. If present trends continue in 10 years the number will almost double. President-elect Barack bama has proposed some good ideas for cutting health care costs but his proposals will not create the savings we need. He has suggested for example that electronic medical records could save Americans nearly $80 billion per year. But information technology cannot bring meaningful savings if it is used in a health care system that regularly rewards waste and punishes efficiency as ours does.
China insurance companies Jan-Nov premium income 915.05 bln yuan …
Forbes NY
05 bln yuan in the 11 months to November up 42 pct year-on-year said Wu Dingfu chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC). Wu said at the annual national insurance meeting held over the weekend that property insurance premium income in the 11 months rose 17. 5 pct year-on-year to 215. 91 bln yuan while life insurance premiums rose 51.
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3 Japanese nonlife insurance majors in merger talks : report
MarketWatch
and Nissay Dowa General Insurance Co. were in talks to integrate their operations as early as autumn the Nikkei business daily reported Monday. A merger would catapult them into Japan’s largest nonlife insurance company by premium revenue. In the year ended March 31 the three companies had combined revenues of 2. 73 trillion yen ($30. 3 billion) about 500 billion yen more than that of industry leader Tokio Marine Holdings Inc.