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.
Some Common Ground for Legal Adversaries on Health Care (New York Times)
By NU Online News ServiceCan Congress use the Commerce Clause to make us buy insurance -- or broccoli?
September 30, 2011
On the MovePersonnel Changes at Assurant, Mutual of Omaha, Employee Benefits Group and other companies
September 30, 2011
On the MovePersonnel Changes at Assurant, Mutual of Omaha, Employee Benefits Group and other companies
September 29, 2011
NAIC Waiting for CMS Antifraud GuidanceThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are still in the preliminary stages of developing antifraud measures required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
September 29, 2011
NAIC Panel Thinks InternationallyAn arm of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has agreed to add a discussion of the differences between the U.S. approach to corporate governance regulation and various international approaches to a key draft document.
September 29, 2011
The Broccoli Case: Obama Administration, PPACA Opponents Ask Supreme Court to RuleThe U.S. Department of Justice and groups that want to block implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 are calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the act is constitutional.
September 29, 2011
Kaiser-HRET: Employer-Based LTC ShrankSmall employers may be much less likely to offer long term care insurance benefits this year than they were in 2007.