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People without health insurance risk potential financial disaster if they should need expensive medical care, but a growing number of underinsured Americans also find themselves on shaky financial ground.

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- In the face of a veto threat, House lawmakers voted 274-to-137 on Thursday to approve an extension of unemployment insurance benefits, looking to ease at least part of the financial stresses burdening U.S. families. Several million unemployed workers could be helped by the program, according to the Congressional Budget Office, as the legislation would provide up to 13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits to workers exhausting the regular program, which typically lasts 26 weeks. The next step would be for Senate passage.

Google Inc. has signed up the first insurance firm to its Google Health medical records online storage program.

In the face of a veto threat, House Democrats are urging their colleagues to pass an extension of unemployment insurance benefits, a tool they hope will ease at least part of the financial stresses burdening U.S. families.

The Politico on Tuesday examined the health care systems of Massachusetts and Vermont. Summaries of the articles appear below.Massachusetts: Two years after Massachusetts passed its health insurance law, the number of newly insured residents 'has cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected,' making the program 'a victim of its own remarkable success,'

Merchants Mutual insurance Co. of Buffalo named Edward Wright board chair, succeeding Bryant Prentice III, who will remain a director of the company.

By KIRI WALTON, Staff Writer kwalton@williamsonherald.com During to spiraling costs, Williamson County will no longer offer group hospitalization, medical and life insurance benefits after retirement to ...

Three leading shareholders in AIG stepped up their campaign to shake up the board of the company, calling for 'significant and immediate changes' to the management of the US insurance group

New research by Moneysupermarket.com has found that motor insurance for men is 9% more expensive than women.