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There has been a great deal of concern expressed by the government regarding poor individuals and families who are unable to purchase health insurance because of the cost, or because insurance companies have denied them coverage due to preexisting conditions. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care act is supposed to remedy this situation at the expense of those who are healthier and wealthier. The goal is to force millions of citizens to pay more for their healthcare coverage, or bring them into "the system" for the first time, thereby increasing revenue to insurance companies in order to offset the potential...

NY insurance agent is accused of $5,900 bank heist Thursday January 22, 5:55 pm ET NYC insurance agent accused of snatching $5,900 in bank heist, making getaway in luxury SUV PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (AP) -- A part-time insurance agent was arrested in his Rockefeller Center office and charged with pulling off a knifepoint bank robbery in the suburbs and making his getaway in a luxury sport utility vehicle, police said Thursday. Edward Solomon, of Ossining, was accused of stealing $5,900 from the Trustco bank in a Peekskill shopping center Jan. 16, Lt. Eric Johansen said.

Dallas police reject investigative offer Daughters mad group can't review homicide; Rangers to study case 07/29/2002 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News The Dallas Police Department has rejected a crime-solving group's offer to review a nearly two-decade-old unsolved homicide. The department's decision has infuriated three daughters of slain Carrollton insurance agent Thomas Clancy Sr. The daughters had sought assistance from the private Philadelphia-based Vidocq Society. "If ... [the police] wanted to, they could have found a way to do it," said Janie Williams, a daughter who lives in Dallas. Thomas Clancy Sr. But the daughters said they...