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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.
Sex, lies and … disability insurance?
By Daniel C. SteenersonIt's time to help men and women come clean about income protection.
January 01, 2013
Potomac Watch: Be careful of the advice you acceptPressured by Tea Party advocates, 32 states representing 63 percent of the American population have opted not to implement a state-run exchange. Instead, they will allow the federal government to set up and run the exchanges, without any state input.
January 01, 2013
Federal court lets N.Y. benefits case move forwardFederal courts should put off looking at employer challenges to the birth control benefits mandate, because the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other departments will be releasing new regulations designed to address religious employers objections by August 1, 2013, according to lawyers for the government.
January 01, 2013
Fiscal cliff bill slams CO-OPs, creates LTC panelThe H.R. 8 LTC commission would include representatives from long-term care insurers.
January 01, 2013
IRS posts PPACA employer mandate draftRegulators hope to keep the "shared responsibility" rules from eliminating full-time employees.
December 31, 2012
Elder care 2016: A view from FreedoniaOverall U.S. provider revenue should grow 5.2 percent per year, analysts say.
December 31, 2012
How can we prevent another Newtown?It doesnt seem that long since I wrote an editorial regarding the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, or the Gabby Giffords shooting before that. In the aftermath of the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting, which has left 26 deadincluding 18 little kidstrying to imagine how such events can be prevented...
December 31, 2012
Potomac Watch: Be careful of the advice you acceptPressured by Tea Party advocates, 32 states representing 63 percent of the American population have opted not to implement a state-run exchange. Instead, they will allow the federal government to set up and run the exchanges, without any state input.