Business groups, whose members pay most health insurance premiums, object to the mandate.
President Obama had previously announced what he described as an "accommodation" for religiously affiliated organizations that buy commercial insurance but object, for religious reasons, to covering contraceptives and sterilization procedures.
The life insurance industry objected, however, claiming that some of the new rules would reduce consumer choice and unnecessarily lower returns on company investments.
House Republicans, employers and insurance companies objected to the proposal, saying it would increase costs for employers in a recession, when many businesses are already cutting health benefits because of a resurgence in medical inflation.
You will need less money because before you needed to pay for a car (or any other large material object), insurance, gas and upkeep, and now you only pay for the service when you want it.
But, she said, "it was paid for on the backs of people who cannot afford health insurance," so liberals objected.
Mr. Lee complained to banking regulators about American General's lending practices and its sales of the insurance policies in objecting to the proposed merger.
The FDIC insurance fund, now the object of so much concern, increased its reserves from less than $1 billion to more than $11 billion.
Prices for packing and shipping, Mr. Aiston said, are based on the size of the object, its insurance value and some modest Customs charges, although there is no duty for objects 100 years old or more.
Roy Stephenson, the head of archaeological collections at the museum, confessed it had been hard to work out an insurance value for the object as it is so meagre in its material reality and yet so rich with tradition and story.
