US House expands children’s health insurance funding

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- US House expands children’s health insurance funding
- House votes health insurance for 4M more children
- AIG selling Canada life-insurance arm for $308 million
- Texas Legislature to face wind-insurance disaster-fund issues

US House expands children’s health insurance funding
Houston Chronicle United States 
RATCLIFFE Copyright 2009 Houston ChronicleJan. 15 2009 1:31AM Share.

House votes health insurance for 4M more children
KPUA HI 
net – KPUA Hawaii News – House votes health insurance for 4M more children. House has voted overwhelmingly to expand government-sponsored insurance to 4 million more children in working families with income too high to qualify for Medicaid.

AIG selling Canada life-insurance arm for $308 million
MarketWatch 
13 2009 SAN FRANCISC (MarketWatch) — American International Group Inc. said Tuesday it agreed to sell off a Canadian life-insurance unit a small step toward the giant insurer’s goal of repaying tens of billions of dollars in government loans.

Texas Legislature to face wind-insurance disaster-fund issues
SmartBrief DC 
The program was meant to plug gaps in insurance coverage left by private insurers’ refusal to write policies in some coastal counties. Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St.
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