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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.
Alzheimer's Disease: The Draft National Plan, Part II
By the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care | ServicesIt's nice to declare that we're going to prevent and cure a dread disease. How do we actually do that?
March 06, 2012
Health TV: Mitt Romney on Benefits for the ElderlyThe GOP presidential contender tells a long-term care provider group that something has to give.
March 06, 2012
IIPRC Starts to Take LTCI FilingsThe nonprofit entity handles long-term care insurance forms for 37 of the 41 compacting states.
March 06, 2012
Planning to Live Forever? Better PlanAALTCI is using life span calculators as tools for demonstrating the need for long-term care insurance.
March 06, 2012
PPACA: Launching of Healthcare Exchanges Depends on Supreme CourtSteve Larsen, deputy administrator and director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) at the Department of Health and Human Services, says the launching of healthcare exchanges will rest on whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is upheld by the Supreme Court.
March 06, 2012
Looking Ahead to the Supreme Court’s Health Care Reform Hearings (E is for ERISA)Almost three years to the day after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was enacted, it will become the most significant piece of legislation reviewed by the Court since the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s. Here's what you can expect.
March 06, 2012
Looking Ahead to the Supreme Court’s Health Care Reform Hearings (E is for ERISA)Almost three years to the day after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was enacted, it will become the most significant piece of legislation reviewed by the Court since the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s. Here's what you can expect.
March 06, 2012
House Eyes Medicare Fee-Setter InsulationDefenders say IPAB needs independence to attack costs; opponents say the panel lacks any real oversight.