The speaker said House Republicans would push to change the administration’s rule that religious institutions must offer insurance plans that cover birth control.

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Facing criticism from religious-affiliated institutions, the Obama administration promised on Tuesday to explore ways to make a new health insurance requirement more flexible.

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The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.

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The Association of British Insurers estimates that up to 200,000 flood-prone homes could face insurance problems next year.

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Many Catholic colleges are pushing back against a ruling by the Obama administration that the new health care law requires insurance plans at Catholic institutions to cover birth control.

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The review into the PIP breast implant scandal is looking at introducing an insurance scheme to help protect future cosmetic surgery patients, the man leading the review tells the BBC.

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Plans to insure cosmetic surgery

The review into the PIP breast implant scandal is looking at introducing an insurance scheme to help protect future cosmetic surgery patients, the man leading the review tells the BBC.

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Plans to insure cosmetic surgery

Insurance firms Direct Line and Churchill – both owned by the RBS group – have been fined £2.17m for tampering with customer complaint files.

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New research, led by a City University professor and financed in part by a union, found that only 3 in 10 nonunion retail workers received health insurance through their jobs.

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Study Offers a Look at New York’s Retail Workers

The Obama administration ordered a health insurance company to rescind the rate increases it sought or justify its refusal to do so.

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White House Calls Increases in Health Insurance Rates Too High

JUST WHEN YOU thought the mess in Washington couldn’t get any messier comes the year-end snafu over the payroll tax , unemployment insurance and other supposedly must-do items. Explaining this fiasco to the proverbial Martian would be almost impossible. Both Democrats and Republicans say they want to see the reduction in the payroll tax extended for a full year. But they have been unable to reach agreement on how to pay for that cost or on extraneous issues being used as political leverage in the fight, such as speeding up approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Senate solution was not so much a solution as a whoppingly bipartisan agreement to fail to reach agreement, kicking the can down the road by a scant two months. No one should feel especially proud of that outcome. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney runs for president with the eye of a venture capitalist. He sees the profit in certain positions, discards those that are no longer profitable and moves on. He was pro-choice when it did him some good, instituted a health insurance plan that he now denounces and once supported amnesty for some illegal immigrants. Richard III offered his kingdom for a horse. Romney offers his principles for some votes in Iowa. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s venture-capital politics

Mitt Romney runs for president with the eye of a venture capitalist. He sees the profit in certain positions, discards those that are no longer profitable and moves on. He was pro-choice when it did him some good, instituted a health insurance plan that he now denounces and once supported amnesty for some illegal immigrants. Richard III offered his kingdom for a horse. Romney offers his principles for some votes in Iowa. Read full article > >

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DES MOINES — Sen. John Thune (S.D.), a conservative member of the Republican Senate leadership, will endorse presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a campaign stop here on Wednesday. Thune, who has been a popular figure in the party since unseating Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004, weighed a presidential bid of his own earlier this year, but decided not to run. He will accompany Romney at a morning event at Nationwide Insurance in downtown Des Moines; later in the day, the two will hold a tele-town hall event for Iowa supporters. Read full article > >

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DES MOINES — Sen. John Thune (S.D.), a conservative member of the Republican Senate leadership, will endorse presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a campaign stop here on Wednesday. Thune, who has been a popular figure in the party since unseating Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004, weighed a presidential bid of his own earlier this year, but decided not to run. He will accompany Romney at a morning event at Nationwide Insurance in downtown Des Moines; later in the day, the two will hold a tele-town hall event for Iowa supporters. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney wins Sen. Thune endorsement