The News Review:
- Small Business and the Public ption
- bama’s 5 Health Care Myths
- Baseball: Insurance run saves Salt Lake Bees’ win
- ING to overhaul Dutch insurance business
Small Business and the Public ption
New York Times
Ah the “public plan” ? that’s basically a government-managed risk pool like Medicare. Proponents (which include most Democrats) say it is the only organization that will have the leverage to force cost controls and other reforms to improve both medicine and insurance. pponents (which include most Republicans) see it as a slippery slope to a national health insurance system like those found in Canada and much of Western Europe. (Actually some proponents see it that way too. )ddly the public plan is also one of the battle lines for organizations that claim to represent small business.
bama’s 5 Health Care Myths
FXNews
The remaining 37% do not expect to see any change. In other words 74% of Americans do not see healthcare reform improving their own situation. The fifth myth is that Americans are deeply concerned about extending health insurance to those not covered. In fact a recent Kaiser Foundation poll found that 54% of Americans are not willing to pay more — either in higher health insurance premiums or higher taxes — to increase the number of Americans that have coverage. As a country we are concerned about the rise in healthcare expenditures and are heartbroken when we hear of people who have been denied medical treatment but we do not want to pick up the tab for them. The United States does have to confront the reality that some people in this country are crushed by medical costs and some receive inadequate treatment. But the debate over how to remedy these problems should be framed by facts not myths.
Baseball: Insurance run saves Salt Lake Bees’ win
Salt Lake Tribune
It was their one run in the ninth though that ultimately made the difference in Salt Lake’s 7-6 victory. Colorado Springs rallied with a combined four runs over the sixth and seventh innings and scored another in the bottom of the ninth off Salt Lake’s PCL All-Star closer Jeremy Hill. The Bees’ run in the top half of the ninth — with Bobby Wilson’s single to right bringing home Brandon Wood — therefore proved an invaluable insurance run. Howie Kendrick led the Salt Lake offense going 4-for-5 with a run and an RBI. Wood Wilson Reggie Willits and Ben Johnson each contributed two hits. Bobby Mosebach earned the win while Hill picked up his 17th save of the season — despite allowing a run on two hits and a walk in a shaky ninth-inning effort. Pioneer League Raptors 6 wlz 5 (11) » At gden the home rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth then prevailed in the 11th thanks to an RBI double by Jerry Sands.
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ING to overhaul Dutch insurance business
Reuters
AS) willcombine its local insurance brands and separately manage itsbank and insurance operations aiming for an annual income boostof 100 million euros ($141 million) after cutting 800 jobs. ING the biggest financial group in the Netherlands willunify Dutch insurance operations under its Nationale-Nederlandenbrand and separately manage bank and insurance operationsNationale-Nederlanden chief executive Lard Friese toldreporters. ING which was formed in 1991 when Nationale-Nederlanden andNMB Postbank Groep merged will spend 165 million euros in thefirst four years for the overhaul of its Dutch insurancebusiness it said in a statement. The group which has been loss-making since last July andgot 10 billion euros of state aid last ctober is working on aprogramme to reduce risks raise up to 8 billion euros fromasset sales and exit 10 out of 48 countries where it operates. The plan was part of ING’s “back to basics” strategy whichaims to have separate management for insurance and bankoperations and the changes would better serve 5 millioninsurance clients in the Netherlands ING Chief Executive JanHommen said.