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.
Saltzman on Health: A Tale of Two Cities
By David A. SaltzmanNo one is setting up guillotines -- but the U.S. health care delivery system does seem to be nearing a revolution...
January 31, 2012
On the Third HandThe best a reporter can do is to try write in such a way that the syntax itself roots out as much bias as possible, to reduce the likelihood that a reader who holds differing views will hurl the print publication containing the article against the wall. Or, if the...
January 31, 2012
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January 31, 2012
Religious Group Employers Required to Offer Contraceptive CoverageEmployers whose religious beliefs are the basis of them not offering contraception to employees as a part of their insurance plan may find themselves required to do otherwise by the federal government after August 2013, according to a new rule.
January 31, 2012
Turmoil in South Carolina as Insurance Director Steps DownIn what has been termed an abrupt departure, David Black announced his resignation as director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance effective Dec. 28, 2011.
January 31, 2012
U.S. Health Care Spending Keeps Rising (Slowly)U.S. health care spending increased 3.9% in 2010 following record slow growth of 3.8% in 2009; the two slowest rates of growth in the 51-year history of the National Health Expenditure Accounts, the official estimates of total health care spending in the United States issued by the Centers for Medicare...
January 31, 2012
Florida to HHS: The MLR is Just Killing UsThe state of Florida continues to carry the banner of health insurance agents on the medical loss ratio (MLR) issue, asking federal health regulators to review its decision not to make adjustments to the rule, as it has in some smaller states.
January 31, 2012
EBRI: PPACA Helped Young AdultsPaul Fronstin has found evidence that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (2010) has done some Americans some good.