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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.
Consumer Advocate: Shopping Not Easy for Medicare Enrollees
By staff WriterCurrent Medicare program rules place sharp limits on enrollees who would like to do their best to hold down their health care expenses.
June 02, 2011
Franken Urges HHS to Defend MLR RuleSen. Al Franken is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to review state requests for minimum medical loss ratio waivers carefully before granting waivers.
June 02, 2011
Vouchers die in SenateThe proposal to dismantle Medicare and replace it with a voucher system went down to defeat in the Senate last week by a margin of 57 to 40.
June 02, 2011
PPACA: The Collateral DamageThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is costing some health insurance agents their jobs, interfering with the shift to the ICD-10 diagnostic coding system, and encouraging many employers to think about dropping group health coverage.
June 01, 2011
Humana Hiring in Tampa, PhoenixHumana Inc. is hiring a total of about 245 full-time employees for two Medicare call centers.
June 01, 2011
CMS Asks for Comments on Health Rate Review ProcessThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to know what people think about the new Affordable Care Act health insurance rate increase disclosure and review program.
June 01, 2011
In response to "GOP budget would restructure Medicare"I've paid into Medicare for my entire life and now see the government wastes those dollars instead of investing them.
June 01, 2011
The 3in4 Need More campaign needs you!The campaign was generated to increase awareness of the need for LTC planning.