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COLUMBUS - The health insurance industry is entering the campaign debate over how to make health care more affordable while retaining a large role for the private sector.

The world's largest insurance company, the one that always announces spectacular earnings, the company with the forceful views on how the market should function, has fallen off its pedestal. It not on

Traditional dental insurance can be quite the hassle. Not only are the rising costs a burden, but the tedious forms to fill out, the costly deductibles, and the long waiting periods can cause many people to stray away from dental insurance altogether. But you don't have to go it alone. Dental plans, the alternative to dental insurance, is really catching on and saving people tons of money.

The Foraker Group, an organization that supports not-for-profit organizations in Alaska, on Thursday announced that it will offer health insurance to employees of private, not-for-profit organizations in the state, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The coverage will be offered through Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska and will be funded with $2 million from the Rasmuson Foundation. The program will not use state money.read more

Insurance will act as your safeguard or protector against the contingent loss. It allows you to take the amount in bulk at the time of emergency, which may not be possible for the salaried person to arrange in a hurry. So, it is suggested to pay the monthly premium of an insurance to use it in the future, after all precaution is always better than cure.

The 'Cover Florida' plan, which offers 'bare-bones' health insurance to low-income residents, likely will not reduce the number of uninsured, according to a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Orlando Sentinel reports.read more

Proponents of the Massachusetts health insurance law 'underestimated costs and overestimated revenue,' which has 'obliged the state to spend more to subsidize insurance' to keep the 'law's promises,' Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, directors of the Health Reform Program at the Boston University School of Public Health, write in a Boston Globe opinion piece.read more

Narragansett Bay insurance Company has appointed Mark Talerico as chief risk officer.

StanCorp Financial Group, a holding company for its insurance and asset management subsidiaries, has reported a net income of $48.4 million or $0.98 per diluted share for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008, compared to $52.1 million or $0.97 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2007.

ING Group reported that it has closed the sale of part of its Mexican business, Seguros ING SA de CV and subsidiaries, to AXA. ING announced this divestment in February as part of its strategy to