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Study: Individual Health May Be More Stable
By Staff WriterFor workers in fair or poor health, owning individual health insurance seems to offer more security than relying on employer-sponsored small-group health coverage does.Mark Pauly ...
May 12, 2008
LIFE: Workers Overestimate Income ProtectionU.S. workers seem to think that they have more public and private disability insurance than they actually have.Researchers at the Life and Health Insurance Foundation ...
May 11, 2008
CMS Toughens Medicare Advantage OversightThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week proposed new regulations that considerably toughen marketing and operations oversight on insurers offering Medicare Advantage and ...
May 11, 2008
Number Of LTC Workers Declining, Threatening A Future 'Care Gap'An analysis by Genworth Financial Inc. finds the number of caregivers providing long term care services in the U.S. is dwindling, threatening to accelerate LTC ...
May 11, 2008
CMS Toughens Medicare Advantage OversightThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week proposed new regulations that considerably toughen marketing and operations oversight on insurers offering Medicare Advantage and ...
May 11, 2008
Holocaust Claims Bill Sparks DebateLegislation that would allow Holocaust survivors to file suit over insurance policies from that era was the subject of debate at a hearing of the ...
May 11, 2008
Holocaust Claims Bill Sparks DebateLegislation that would allow Holocaust survivors to file suit over insurance policies from that era was the subject of debate at a hearing of the ...
May 09, 2008
CIGNA Adds Elder Information ResourcesA managed care company is offering Medicare plan members access to a Web reference service.CIGNA Senior & Retiree Services, a unit of CIGNA Corp., Philadelphia, ...