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.
Study: Older Americans getting unnecessary colonoscopies
By staff WriterA new study reveals that many older Americans are receiving unnecessary colonoscopies, with Medicare picking up the tab.
May 10, 2011
Aetna Unit Files for 10% Health Rate DecreaseA health insurance subsidiary of Aetna Inc. is asking the Connecticut Insurance Department for permission to cut rates on 9,745 existing individual health policies by an average of 10%.
May 10, 2011
PPACA: Curtain Opens on Individual Mandate AppealA lawyer for Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act opponents today faced a tough appeals court crowd as he challenged an individual health insurance ownership provision.
May 09, 2011
Lawmakers Schedule ER Use HearingStrategies for reducing non-emergency use of emergency rooms will be the focus of an upcoming Senate hearing.
May 09, 2011
Bad News for PessimistsMortality for the general U.S. population has been increasing at an average rate of about 1% per year.
May 09, 2011
A Team EffortRosemarie Rossetti, the spokeswoman for the 2011 Disability Insurance Awareness Month public education campaign, had plenty going for her June 13, 1998
May 09, 2011
Kaiser: Cost Gap WidensThe United States did about as well as other rich countries at controlling total health expenditure increases in the 1990s, but its grip started to weaken around 2000.
May 09, 2011
Return...to What?So, just how hard is it to return workers who have gone out on disability to work at a time when empty cubicles abound?