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.
The Broccoli Case: Obama Administration, PPACA Opponents Ask Supreme Court to Rule
By Allison BellThe 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 27, 2011
Kaiser-HRET: PPACA is HereThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is starting to have noticeable effects on group health coverage, researchers say.
September 27, 2011
CIGNA to Add U.K. Travel Insurance BusinessCIGNA Corp. has agreed to acquire First Assist Insurance Services from the private equity arm of Barclays P.L.C.
September 27, 2011
OPM: Non-Postal Federal Health Rates to Rise 3.8%The average premium for Federal Employees Health Benefits coverage will rise only about half as fast in 2012 as it did this year, officials say.
September 27, 2011
Segal: Health Plans Beat Cost ExpectationsHealth care costs continued to climb in 2010, but not nearly as quickly as carriers and plan administrators had predicted.
September 27, 2011
Out with the oldIn 1942, Joseph Schumpeter used the phrase "creative destruction" to describe "a process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one."
September 27, 2011
PPACA: HHS Seeks Carriers for Primary Care Investment ProjectThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants to try teaming up with public and private health plans to invest in modernizing primary care medical practices.
September 26, 2011
EBRI: Group Health Erosion Likely to ContinueEnrollment in employer-sponsored health plans fell in 2010 and seems to be falling again this year.