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.
AMA girds for "defined contribution" Medicare
By Allison BellThe group's House of Delegates recommends principles that could help shape a new system.
November 14, 2012
Minnesota: Feds should handle health risk adjustmentThe state's exchange builders already have said they want HHS to run the reinsurance program.
November 14, 2012
Minnesota: Feds should handle health risk adjustmentThe state's exchange builders already have said they want HHS to run the reinsurance program.
November 14, 2012
Florida governor eases on PPACARick Scott says he still has concerns but wants to negotiate with HHS.
November 14, 2012
Trade associations lay into NAIC budgetNAMIC noted NAIC lacks checks and balances found in "other bureaucracies."
November 14, 2012
Medicare and Medicaid must be cut. PeriodNo federal program eats up more dollars than Medicare and Medicaid 21 percent of the budget, combined, in 2011.
November 14, 2012
Weight Watchers winning $61 billion war on fatOf the roughly 25,000 competitors vying for a piece of the massive weight-loss market, Weight Watchers is taking (but probably not eating) the cake.
November 14, 2012
Do I really need long-term care insurance?Not necessarily-- not if you're extremely wealthy, a columnist says.