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.
Enrollees To Seek Prescription Bids
By staff WriterA health plan will be helping members auction off the opportunity to sell them medicine.
December 10, 2009
The CLASS Act: What a Government Long Term Care Program Could Mean For YouWhat, exactly, does the proposed federal CLASS Act entail? And, more importantly, what would it mean for your business if it passes?
December 09, 2009
DI Group Honors CohenThe International DI Society has given the W. Harold Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award to Eugene Cohen.
December 09, 2009
Sun Life Financial Updates Small Group BenefitsAn insurer has revised a benefit plan menu aimed at employers with 2 to 9 employees.
December 09, 2009
Arizona Starts Up LTC Partnership PlanThe state of Arizona is inviting long term care insurers to submit policies for certification under its new Long Term Care Partnership program.
December 09, 2009
"Covering" LTCILong-Term Care Insurance has an image problem, and it starts with the name itself according to one of our three Producer Roundtable panelists in the December issue of Life Insurance Selling.
December 09, 2009
CIAB Might Back Public Option CompromiseSenate Democrats appear to be developing a "public option plan" compromise that could attract support from at least one insurance producer group.
December 09, 2009
Health Insurers Fight Claim Ratio ProposalSenate Democrats may have agreed create a more privatized public option health plan - but require commercial health insurers to spend 90% of premium revenues on claims.