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.
Obamacare's worst feature? It's wedded to 50-year-old assumptions about health and insurance
By staff WriterAssumptions about how health care should be delivered and financed are unraveling.
September 09, 2013
Medicaid expansion could be only option for 40% of uninsured adultsIn absence of states expanding Medicaid, 2 in 5 uninsured adults could have no health insurance option, a Commonwealth Fund report finds.
September 09, 2013
PCIP woes devastate desperately ill patientsBev Veals was getting chemo when she heard her "risk pool" plan was shutting down.
September 09, 2013
Web service helps smooth PPACA transitionThose little forms uncovered some old computers.
September 09, 2013
Rochester: Medicare cost saving champOfficials credit efforts to clamp down on hospital expansions and technology upgrades.
September 09, 2013
Rochester: Medicare cost saving champOfficials credit efforts to clamp down on hospital expansions and technology upgrades.
September 09, 2013
Disability employment rate continues to fallPeople with disabilities are having a tougher time finding work.
September 09, 2013
Groups race to hire, train PPACA guidesSeventeen states are imposing their own requirements on exchange helpers.