WHILE POLICY considerations will infuse the Supreme Court arguments Tuesday about the health-care mandate, the session will focus on this legal question: Does the Constitution give Congress the power to order all individuals above a certain income level to buy health insurance? This is the topic of the Supreme Court’s second of three days of consideration of the health-care reform act. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Why the individual mandate holds the key to health-care reform

MADISON, Wis. — Every day at the cutting and sewing business he runs with his father, Ross Brown listened to Glenn Beck rail on the radio against Big Government, Big Labor and Big Money. In his years of middays with Beck, Brown had morphed from apolitical adolescence to college student with his own talk show on the campus radio station and on to businessman with 15 employees and not enough money to offer them health insurance. Read full article > >

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1 . The “individual mandate” forces everyone to buy health insurance. The law states that, beginning in 2014, individuals must ensure that they and their dependents are covered by health insurance. Taxpayers who do not meet this requirement will have to pay a penalty that the law calls a “shared responsibility payment.” It begins at $95 for the first year and never exceeds 2 1 / 2 percent of anyone’s annual taxable income. Read full article > >

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Five myths about the health-care law

Since the 2010 health-care bill became law two years ago Friday, it has launched fundamental changes to Medicaid, Medicare and the private health-insurance system relied on by millions of Americans. Its most transformative — and controversial — provisions are not set to take effect until 2014, but a complex web of new rules has already extended coverage and expanded benefits across the country. Read full article > >

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Health-care changes may not all disappear even if justices overturn the law

Expect demonstrators to brandish placards reading “Hands off my health care!” and demanding a repeal of the 2010 health-care law. Expect doctors in white lab coats and patients who have suffered at the hands of insurance companies to hold news conferences lauding the law’s consumer protections and pleading for its preservation. Read full article > >

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Health-care law activists to reach for broad political targets at Supreme Court hearings

March 16 (Bloomberg) — Attorney Lynn Szymoniak had spent a career investigating insurance fraud when a bank moved to foreclose on her Florida home in 2008. Almost four years later, the fraud she said she uncovered by combing through mortgage documents earned her $18 million. Read full article > >

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Bank Whistle-Blower Wins $18 Million Payday in Foreclosure Deal

Says they should have had insurance.

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Ron Paul: No Aid for Tornado Victims

1 . Medicare is inefficient and fails to control costs. The trustees of Medicare last year projected that the program’s share of gross domestic product would increase from the current 3.7 percent to about 5 percent in 2030 and nearly 6 percent by 2050. But since Medicare’s inception in 1965, its spending growth, on a per-person basis, has stayed consistent with or lower than the increase in private health insurance premiums. Read full article > >

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Five myths about Medicare

US insurance giant AIG reports a big increase in fourth-quarter profit, thanks to a $17.7bn (£11.2bn) tax benefit.

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AIG profit boosted by tax benefit

Lloyds is taking back bonuses worth £2m from executives in the wake of the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.

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Lloyds takes back bosses’ bonuses

GOP presidential candidate and former senator Rick Santorum sharply criticized President Obama’s health-care law again Sunday for requiring health-insurance companies to cover certain prenatal tests, because some procedures are used to identify abnormalities and “encourage abortions.” Read full article > >

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Rick Santorum: Prenatal testing encourages abortions (VIDEO)

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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Boehner Vows to Fight Contraception Rule

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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Obama Addresses Ire on Health Insurance Contraception Rule

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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Loans boss ‘to pay tax at source’

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

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200,000 homes ‘at flooding risk’