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.
NAIFA: Currey Accentuates the Positive
By Warren S. HerschThe National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors has helped agents stay in the health coverage ballgame, Thomas Currey said here at the group's annual meeting.
September 13, 2010
After a Near-Death Experience, Individual LTC Sales Rise SharplyIndividual long term care (LTC) insurance sales rose 13% in the first half of this year, reversing a sales decline that had endured for most of the previous seven years, LIMRA reports.
September 13, 2010
H.R. 5297: Senate Nixes 1099 FixThe Senate today cleared the way for H.R. 5297, the Small Business Jobs Act bill, to reach the floor without changing a provision that could greatly expand Form 1099 reporting requirements.
September 13, 2010
The Health Reform Debate Rages On: A Look at Both Sides of the IssueSince before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed, the Democrats and Republicans have been hashing out the details and arguing over which or their sides has it right.
September 12, 2010
Health Issues Heat Up for AgentsCongress is expected to take up, as early as this week, a proposed revision to the healthcare reform law designed to limit a stringent tax-reporting mandate scheduled to go into effect in 2012 that is particularly irksome to small businesses.
September 10, 2010
Editor's Blog: Planned ObsolescenceBill Coffin points out that one person's reform may be another's headache.
September 10, 2010
PPACA: Mixing It UpRegulators have to figure out how to handle health carriers that offer more than one type of health plan when they implement the new minimum medical loss ratio rules.
September 10, 2010
Sebelius to AHIP: Enough with the Letters, AlreadyU.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the Obama administration will take action if health insurers continue to blame 2011 rate hikes on the Affordable Care Act.