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.
Medicare Part B premiums to rise $5 a month in 2013
By Ricardo Alonso-ZaldivarThe increase amounts to one-quarter of the typical Social Security cost-of-living adjustment.
November 16, 2012
Medicare Part B premiums to rise $5 a month in 2013The increase amounts to one-quarter of the typical Social Security cost-of-living adjustment.
November 16, 2012
Who will start a PPACA exchange?HHS has once again pushed the deadline back, but many states have placed their bets.
November 16, 2012
Health insurance premiums see smallest increase in 15 yearsMercer found plan design changes are holding benefits cost increases to 4.1 percent.
November 16, 2012
MetLife to sell bank to GE CapitalMetLife will be allowed to sell its bank to GE Capital early next year, but is still likely to be designated as systemically significant (SIFI), an insurance analyst says.
November 16, 2012
Simpson, Bowles: To Fix Fiscal House, ‘We Need Patriots, Not Panderers’Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles blunt, tough message on fixing the fiscal mess gets a warm reception among Schwab Impact attendees.
November 15, 2012
Has the debt got you down?As top producer Van Mueller once told me: Dont confuse debt with the deficit. For many, neither is a pretty picture these days.
November 15, 2012
Nursing home is faulted over care after stormOfficials say generators stopped, food was scarce, and managers lost track of evacuated patients.