Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Workers like their health plans, but not health care generally
By Warren S. HerschRoughly 3 in 10 workers surveyed by EBRI describe the health care system as poor (29 percent) or fair (32 percent).
October 13, 2014
A Q&A with 5 of the most successful advisors in the industryWe picked the brains of the top five Advisor of the Year finalists at the 2014 Advisor Network Summit in Las Vegas.
October 13, 2014
Disability Insurance Observer: EbolaIt seems as if the big need will be for income protection and home care.
October 13, 2014
Thin/zero clients gaining ground on the desktop in UK insurers' officesEight in ten U.K. insurers have at least some thin or zero client desktops deployed in their organizations.
October 13, 2014
Sluggish exchange plan users could face big 2016 tax billsSome users who now have subsidies may get automatically re-upped with no subsidies.
October 13, 2014
Feds: Keep ER use out of reference-based pricingThe new arrangements are like Priceline for health care.
October 13, 2014
Health Net: Early 2014 claims look uglyThe carrier says that their individual claims costs for the first four months under PPACA are more than double what they were prior to PPACA.
October 13, 2014
Why 401(k) education has failedWhy should we expect our 401(k) education outlines to succeed when, for the most part, theyre patterned after the same failed model of secondary school education?