Congress considers subsidizing deductibles on crop insurance
Story Date: 5/14/2012

 
Source: Kim Geiger, LA TIMES, 5/10/12

It's a deal that most businesses would relish: Buy an insurance policy to cover losses or falling prices, and the government will foot most of the bill. Such an arrangement has been enjoyed for more than a decade by the farmers who grow crops such as corn and soybeans, and the companies that insure them.

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