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.
UnitedHealth: For Many, Benefits a Mystery
By staff WriterAbout 40% of U.S. workers who have employer-sponsored health coverage admit that they are not quite sure how their coverage is supposed to work.
September 28, 2010
PPACA: States Scramble to Save Child-Only PoliciesMany states are adopting special open-enrollment periods in an effort to keep new Affordable Care Act rules from chasing carriers from the child-only health insurance market.
September 28, 2010
Suicide Rate for Baby Boomers Increases, Reversing TrendThe suicide rate among boomers is increasing, despite decades-long downward trend.
September 27, 2010
Displaced... and HurtingHundreds of thousands of older Americans are opening their mailboxes this fall and finding Dear John and Dear Jane letters From their Medicare plans.
September 27, 2010
Guardian: Small Business Owners Are Feeling BetterU.S. small business owners seemed to be more optimistic about their businesses in June than they were 12 months earlier.
September 27, 2010
Affinion: Bank Insurance Customers Stick AroundConsumers who buy insurance through banks and other financial institutions tend to maintain long relationships with those institutions.
September 27, 2010
Hewitt: Health Costs to Rise 8.8%Large U.S. employers are expecting to pay an average of $9,821 in health insurance premiums per employee in 2011, up from an average of $9,028 this year.
September 27, 2010
NAIFA: Good News, Bad NewsThe National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) has helped agents stay in the health coverage ballgame.