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INSURANCE

BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 26, 2013
Meiji will buy 15% of Thai Life Insurance
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co., the nation's third-biggest life insurer, said it agreed to buy a 15 percent stake in closely held Thai Life Insurance PCL to meet rising demand in the Southeast Asian nation.
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2013
U.S. health-care law tied to pay cut for part-timers
For Kevin Pace, the president's health care law could have meant better health insurance. Instead, it produced a pay cut.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 23, 2013
Obama's toughest campaign yet: selling health care reform
Deep inside the White House, in a bare room that the chief of staff uses for meetings, David Simas is still thinking about turnout.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 3, 2013
White House delays health care rule that businesses insure workers
The mandate requiring U.S. employers to provide insurance for workers will not take effect until 2015.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 26, 2013
Sumitomo Life eyes stake in Bank Negara's insurance unit
Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. is among companies preparing to bid for a stake in the life insurance unit of PT Bank Negara Indonesia, according to two sources.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 13, 2013
Insurance companies main beneficiaries of scheme to protect obstetricians from malpractice suits
Some mothers claim they are overpaying for insurance to protect obstetricians from malpractice suits.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 27, 2013
Should healthy people pay less for health insurance?
Should healthy people pay less for national health insurance than unhealthy people?
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 14, 2012
Working the system: Beware of doctors with private rooms
Doctors have ways of making money outside the insurance system.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 24, 2012
Poorer people passing up cancer screenings
The lower your income, the less likely you'll take advantage of your local cancer screening program.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 14, 2012
How to keep your health insurance when you can't pay for it
There's help for people who can't pay their national health insurance premiums.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 7, 2012
Hospitals redefine the meaning of 'weekend getaway'
Government wants patients to wait until Monday to start hospital stays.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 5, 2011
Competition taking a bite out of dentistry schools' tuition schemes
Dentistry schools in cutthroat competition for new students.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 30, 2011
Doctors afraid new fee will reduce customers … er, patients
The government wants to add a u00a5100 fee to your medical bills, and doctors are furious.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 11, 2011
Local governments crack down on health insurance scofflaws
As the tax base gets poorer fewer people pay their national health insurance premiums, and local governments are doing something about it.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 29, 2011
The hidden economics of diabetes
Japanese doctors can make a lot of money from the diabetes epidemic.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 15, 2011
More independent women taking out insurance
The number of women buying life insurance is on the rise. Should we be surprised?

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