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.
Deloitte: The Young Use Ambulances
By staff WriterYoung adults ages 19 to 24 tend to have low overall out-of-pocket health care costs, but they sometimes run up big ambulance bills.
March 23, 2011
5 Myths About Health Insurance ExchangesOne of the greatest professional challenges that brokers and general agents will need to confront by mid-2013 will be how to survive in the emerging world of health insurance exchanges.
March 23, 2011
Delta Dental Plans Eye Exchange SystemDental plans are asking the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to think about them when it is helping to set up the new health insurance exchanges.
March 23, 2011
State Health Insurance Regulators Tied to Industry, Says WatchdogConsumer Watchdog, the nonpartisan consumer advocacy agency, on Tuesday warned that close ties to the insurance industry through lobbying, contributions, and appointments could affect an upcoming vote on Sunday by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners concerning the rates people pay for health insurance.
March 22, 2011
Dearborn Cuts DistributorsDearborn National has ended a distribution and marketing agreement with Rayant Insurance Agency Inc.
March 22, 2011
Consumer Watchdog: Most NAIC Commissioners Have Industry TiesAt least 26 of the commissioners at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have strong ties to the insurance industry, Consumer Watchdog says.
March 22, 2011
WellPoint to Raise Calif. Individual Rates 9.1%A unit of WellPoint Inc. has agreed to increase individual health insurance rates in California a little less and a little later than it had originally proposed.
March 22, 2011
AHIP to NAIC: Well-Paid Producers Important to Exchange SystemPaying agents and brokers who work with the new health insurance exchanges fairly could protect the exchanges against adverse selection, according to C.M. Gallaher, a vice president at America's Health Insurance Plans.