Regulation

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Medicare

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Part A covers hospital stays and is premium free for most based on payroll taxes paid while working. Part B covers physician and o...

Medicaid

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States run the program under federal rules and receive a matching share of costs from Washington ranging from 50 to over 70 percen...

COBRA

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Continuation typically runs up to 18 months, or 36 for dependents in some cases. The catch is price: the former employee pays the ...

Affordable Care Act

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It barred denial or rating for pre existing conditions, set essential health benefits every plan must cover, allowed rating only b...

National Flood Insurance Program

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Administered by FEMA, it admits communities that adopt floodplain ordinances and lets their residents buy policies, today over 4.5...

McCarran-Ferguson Act

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It reversed the Supreme Court decision declaring insurance interstate commerce subject to federal antitrust law, exempting the bus...

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

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Members are the commissioners who run state departments. The association writes model laws, from holding company acts to market co...

State Guaranty Associations

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Created by state laws after twentieth century insolvency waves left policyholders exposed, they activate when liquidation proves a...

Solvency II

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Pillar 1 sets quantitative capital: technical provisions valued to market, a solvency capital requirement from a standard formula ...

Risk-Based Capital

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Adopted by the NAIC in the early 1990s after insolvency waves, the charges penalize equities and low grade bonds through asset ris...

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act

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After the 2001 attacks produced insured losses near 40 billion dollars and insurers pulled out, construction lending froze for lac...