Activist: Craddick violates law by paying daughter - News 8 Austin

AUSTIN -- House Speaker Tom Craddick is facing an ethics complaint over campaign payments and state health insurance benefits for his political consultant daughter. The complaint against Republican Craddick was filed this week by Houston-area ...

Obama defends calling on Clinton-era veterans - International Herald Tribune

CHICAGO : President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday defended his decision to select veterans of the Clinton administration for positions in the West Wing, his cabinet and across the administration, saying Americans would be rightly "troubled" if he ...

Health Insurance For State Workers - Metro News

The state Public Employees Finance Board meets later today to decide whether to increase the amount thousands of state workers pay for health insurance. The PEIA staff proposed a nine percent premium increase last month and took that plan out to ...

State health insurance plan verifying dependents - New Orleans Times-Picayune

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More than 12,000 people currently covered by the state employee health insurance office stand to lose their coverage unless they verify they are entitled to it. The Office of Group Benefits provides health insurance and life ...

Insurers like Obama health plan, with reservations - Danbury News-Times

WASHINGTON—The insurance industry embraced many of President-elect Barack Obama's ideas for better health care coverage Wednesday, though it opposes a key piece of his plan to require employers to help pay for that coverage. The industry said it ...