Fitch Releases Latest Edition of U.S. Health Care Sector Report.CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings An international rating agency for financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate, sovereign, and municipal debt. Fitch Ratings has headquarters in New York and London and is wholly owned by FIMALAC of Paris. examines a number of recently enacted or proposed programs in the latest edition of its regular report, 'U.S. Health Care Sector Legislative and Regulatory Register -- Spring 2009'. The report summarizes the key aspects of a number of programs, such as the Children's Health Children's Health Definition Children's health encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of children from infancy through adolescence. Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), and also comments on potential credit exposure for impacted industry sectors. While there have been preliminary discussions among various policymakers on the topic of universal health care initiatives, it is unclear whether such a large and complex issue will be resolved this year. Fitch fitch: see polecat. naturally expects more clarity as the specifics of various proposals are released over the course of the year. 'U.S. Health Care Sector Legislative and Regulatory Register -- Spring 2009' is available at www.fitchratings.com under the following headers: Corporate Finance then Corporates then Special Reports Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use Terms of Use are rules set up by the owner of an intellectual property or service to govern how they may be legally used. In many cases, terms of service are used as a contractual agreement between a company and users of a service they provide. of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site. |
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