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.
Towers Watson, UnitedHealth Form Retiree Benefits Alliance
By staff WriterA health insurer and a benefits services form are teaming up to market post-retirement health coverage programs to large employers.
February 24, 2010
Obama Seeks Health Policy Bridge; Republicans SkepticalRepublicans and Democrats today showed fleeting signs of willingness to talk about specific ideas for changing the U.S. health finance system.
February 24, 2010
Is the Health Care Reform Summit Worth It?Tomorrows health reform summit is meant to be a bipartisan effort to bring together all the ideas out there about health reform and try to ...
February 24, 2010
Is the Health Care Reform Summit Worth It?Tomorrow’s health reform summit is meant to be a bipartisan effort to bring together all the ideas out there about health reform and try to ...
February 23, 2010
Grassley Asks Iowa Carrier To Explain Rate IncreasesThe highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee has asked a large health insurer in his home state to explain why prices for some insureds will increase as much as 22% April 1.
February 23, 2010
Sick enough, poor enough: A comparison of long term care systemsHow does our system compare to those in other countries?
February 23, 2010
Guardian Sweetens Disability PoliciesGuardian Life Insurance Company of America will now protect the income that medical and dental professionals use to re-pay student loans.
February 23, 2010
Gibbs: Federal Health Rate Regulator Not A New AgencyObama administration officials want the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to work with state insurance regulators to oversee health insurance prices, rather than creating a new price review agency.