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.
Vinson Declares PPACA Unconstitutional
By Allison BellU.S. District Judge Roger Vinson has issued an order granting summary judgment and declaring the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be unconstitutional.
January 31, 2011
In response to 'Seniors struggle with Medicare website'Last year, when you would select three plans for comparison, the estimated annual cost for mail order was included.
January 31, 2011
Advisors: Make 2011 your best year everI sincerely believe this will be our greatest year ever. Americans desperately need our ideas and insight.
January 31, 2011
Iowa Regulator Rules on Health RatesIowa Insurance Commission Susan Voss lowered one health rate increase that a carrier requested and let another proceed as filed.
January 31, 2011
Get back to basics for client connectionsThese last couple of years there's been one distraction to your book of business after another.
January 31, 2011
AALTCI: LTC Insurers Pay $11 Million a DayThe top 10 U.S. long term care insurers paid about $11 million in daily benefits in 2010, according to the American Association for Long Term Care Insurance.
January 30, 2011
In Turnabout, Democrats Say GOP Has Dropped Job FocusRepublicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs; now GOP lawmakers stand accused of the same charge by Democrats.
January 28, 2011
PPACA: The Battle of the ProjectionsHealth insurers and the Obama administration are clashing over the future effects of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs.