1.   Alaska says it has approved some claims for short-term medical problems in cases where there was smoke in the cabin, but it has not covered long-term illnesses.

2.   But that will not cover major illness, and the women do not spend it on themselves, saving it for their children.

3.   By using subsidiaries, Japanese insurance firms plan to enter the third sector market -- insurance policies covering illness, accidents and nursing care.

4.   Chief Scientific Officer Marc Vasseur said recently that Genset had already been already approached by companies to cooperate on projects covering other illnesses.

5.   Dallek also said that as healthy seniors switch to health maintenance organizations, those who keep traditional coverage tend to have more costly illnesses covered by the Medigap policies.

6.   Insurers package them with high-deductible health coverage to cover catastrophic illnesses.

7.   Medical savings accounts enable people to put money aside, tax free, to pay most medical costs while buying insurance policies with high deductibles to cover serious illness.

8.   Medicare would deposit money into the accounts to pay routine medical bills and buy high-deductible insurance to cover catastrophic illness.

9.   Picking up on a theme espoused by his wife, Tipper, he said he wanted health care plans to cover mental illness just as they cover physical illness.

10.   The accounts are set up at banks or insurance companies and packaged with high-deductible health insurance to cover serious illness.