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life insurance policy isn’t hard to understand. So, if you die unexpectedly, the insurer you are signed up with will pay out on the policy to give your next of kin a lump sum or an income according to the terms of your agreement. In most cases you will pay for your life insurance policy on a monthly basis for as long as the policy is in force.
All this may simply be common sense but there are other things you need to know about a life insurance policy before you take one out. For a start it is absolutely vital that you read the terms and conditions of any policy before you buy it as this is where you will find all the information that you need to know before you proceed.
National abortion-rights advocacy groups were outraged when the House passed the Stupak amendment to the health-care bill. The amendment—named for its sponsor, Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak—would bar patients who receive government affordability credits from buying health insurance that covers elective abortions, even if they pay for the abortion component with their own money. It seemed as if the reproductive-rights establishment had been blindsided by Speaker Nancy Pelosi's last-minute deal to placate the conservative Democrats in Congress and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
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National abortion-rights advocacy groups were outraged when the House passed the Stupak amendment to the health-care bill. The amendment—named for its sponsor, Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak—would bar patients who receive government affordability credits from buying health insurance that covers elective abortions, even if they pay for the abortion component with their own money. It seemed as if the reproductive-rights establishment had been blindsided by Speaker Nancy Pelosi's last-minute deal to placate the conservative Democrats in Congress and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). (Article continued below...) Advertisement Your video will begin in seconds _companionAds.push(new CompanionAd("player-EAS0NB0A", false)); Adjust volume for sound
The reality is much more complicated. Abortion-rights groups were actually watching and lobbying against stringent anti-abortion restrictions in the health-care bill throughout the process. And, while their strategy failed in the House, the introduction of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's health-care bill on Wednesday without Stupak-like language indicates that their predictions that they would be more effective in the Senate are being vindicated. placeAd2(commercialNode,'bigbox',false,'')
National pro-choice groups had been watching the issue of abortion funding closely since this spring. This summer, they reluctantly supported a compromise deal between pro-choice and pro-life Democrats that they hoped would defuse the issue of abortion and allow reform to proceed. For national abortion-rights groups, the issue of abortion funding was a sword of Damocles hanging over them throughout the health-care reform process. Leaders of national pro-choice groups say that they were well aware that something like the Stupak amendment could find its way into the House bill. The House Democratic Caucus has a reputation for being more liberal than its Senate counterpart on key health-reform issues like the public option, so a grassroots member of, say, NARAL, might have been taken by surprise. But it's a myth that there's a pro-abortion–rights majority in the House. Among insiders, it was no secret that if Stupak got his up or down vote, the amendment would prevail. This summer, abortion-rights activists helped broker a compromise to keep the Stupak language out of the bill. Stupak tried and failed to introduce his language in the Energy and Commerce Committee. In an attempt to put forward an alternative more palatable to both pro-choice and pro-life members, Democratic Rep. Lois Capps, a former public-health nurse, introduced the so-called Capps compromise, which passed. At the time, even the USCCB hinted that it might be amenable to a Capps-type deal in which there was no "direct federal funding” of abortion. The compromise was modeled on the Hyde amendment, a 1976 law that bans federal funding for abortions through the annual Health and Human Services appropriations bill. The Capps amendment would have prohibited direct federal subsidies for abortion coverage, but it would have allowed women receiving government subsidies to buy policies that covered elective abortions, provided the money to pay for that coverage came out of the individual's share of the premium. It is expected that about 80 percent of the initial participants in the new government health exchanges will receive at least some federal subsidy, but most of those people will still pay most of their premiums out-of-pocket.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has rolled out a new version of its free Google Maps Navigation application that's compatible with smartphones running the Android 1.6 operating system, such as T-Mobile's myTouch 3G and its G1. When the app was introduced last month in beta, it could only be used by smartphones running Android 2.0, the latest version of the OS, such as Verizon's Droid. Google Maps Navigation is an Internet-connected GPS system with voice guidance and automatic rerouting. Users enter a destination, and the app then delivers a map, business info, traffic data, and satellite and street view imagery along the route. Its key feature, however, is the ability to provide turn-by-turn voice directions similar to navigation systems such as TomTom that must be purchased. Google pushed the 2.0 version out the door first, in time for the Droid's debut, likely at Verizon Wireless' urging, Allen Nogee, principal analyst at In-Stat, told LinuxInsider. "Now they are doubling back to offer it to other phones," he said. type="text/javascript"> Missing Pieces Google Maps Navigation for 1.6 is coming to market without some of the features in 2.0, according to an official Google blog post by Michael Siliski, product manager. For example, the ability to use the "navigate to" voice command is not available for Android 1.6, he said. "However, you can still create a shortcut that will allow you to launch Navigation and start getting directions to a specific place from your current location with just a single touch from your home screen." Users can create a "Home" shortcut to navigate home, he continued. Use the "Add" menu item from the home screen, then choose "Shortcuts," then "Directions." What It Does Have The new release does include the Layers feature, which lets users overlay geographical information on the map, Siliski said. Smartphone owners running Android 1.6 can download the beta version of Google Maps Navigation from the Android Market. TomTom Killer? Despite its limitations, Google Maps Navigation is viewed as a threat to GSP-guided voice navigation systems that have a price tag attached. "Maps on the smartphone is one of the top categories of apps or tools," Greg Sterling, principal with Sterling Market Intelligence, told LinuxInsider. Personal navigation devices as a standalone category will be subject to increasing pressure now that Google is expanding its rollout. For starters, "the biggest driver of behavior is price, and I think a lot of people will opt for a free -- even if it is inferior to the paid product -- service," he said. Then there is the desire by most consumers to limit the number of gadgets they carry around. Early Days Google's app is still in the nascent stages of development, and it's not easy for average consumers to take full advantage of it, Nogee opined. "The menu options can be difficult to use," he said. Its biggest plus is that it has "voice recognition for locations that mostly work. End of the day, I don't think TomTom has anything to worry about for the moment." That said, Android has demonstrated great ability to leap forward with its functionality, said Bernard Golden, founder of HyperStratus and author of Succeeding With Open Source. It will not take long for developers to work through the kinks to deliver even better and easier-to-use functionality, he told LinuxInsider. There is significant demand for it -- enough to make Google Maps Navigation a category killer, Golden predicted.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Global mobile data traffic continued to surge in October, growing at the fastest pace in seven months, Internet browser company Opera Software said on Wednesday. Data traffic through Opera's mobile browser -- which packages up to 90 percent of the data to save network bandwidth -- rose 16 percent in October from September, the company said. Tech-savvy consumers have used cellphones to access Internet on the go for long, but the mobile Internet market has really boomed since 2007 introduction of Apple's iPhone. "When things really started to get off was when Steve Jobs stood up and said: Now you can get Internet in your pocket," said Opera's chief financial officer, Erik Harrell. "The iPhone has opened the eyes of operators for revenue potential of Web browsers and I think Google has done the same." Wireless operators are eager to increase revenue from Internet browsing and the social networking boom as revenue from traditional voice calls is declining, but they are facing increasingly congested networks. This is helping browsers like Opera, which use proxy servers to package data and send only a small amount through wireless networks. "There is a rapidly growing trend on the market toward proxy-based browsers," Randy Cavaiani, vice president for marketing and business development at browser firm Novarra, said in a recent interview. "If a handset maker is looking to acquire technology, they would look at strength of the server," he said. Nokia and other top phone makers have increasingly focused on developing their own browsers, but most players in the industry are certain Blackberry-maker RIM's August deal to buy browser firm Torch will not be the last one. "Opera's future will depend on key technology players assessing their options and deciding on a make or buy strategy." Opera has 39.6 million users of its Opera Mini browser who all access the Internet through Opera's servers -- giving the company usage data -- and who generated 263 million megabytes of data traffic for operators worldwide last month. Opera continues to lead the global mobile browsing market, controlling 26.4 percent of the market in November so far, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter. The iPhone browser and Nokia browser follow with 22.1 percent and 19.7 percent of the market. Opera's browser is used extensively in emerging countries, with its market share above 50 percent in countries like Russia, Indonesia, India and Ukraine.
