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.
AHIP Speakers Debate Health Care Reform
By Matt BradyWhile discussion of health care reforms have been a mainstay of the primary season, actually carrying out such proposals would be an enormous undertaking, according ...
March 04, 2008
More Than 12 Million Enrolled In CDHPs: StudyConsumer-directed health plans grew 25% last year, reports the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations, Washington.The number of Americans enrolled in a CDHP in 2007 ...
March 03, 2008
North Carolina Commissioner To Move OnA Tar Heel state insurance regulator says he will not run for reelection.Jim Long, 67, who has been serving as the elected insurance commissioner in ...
March 03, 2008
Sunshine State Regulators Find Little Travel UnderwritingFlorida life insurers that responded to a state data call say they rejected only 7 life applications in 2007 in connection with concerns about the ...
March 03, 2008
New Michigan Coalition Strives To Cover UninsuredRepresentatives from insurers, health systems, unions, employers and religious institutions are teaming up to help residents of their state who lack health insurance.The organizers have ...
March 03, 2008
UnitedHealth Changes Name Of HSA Bank SubThe parent of Exante Financial Services has changed its name to OptumHealth Financial Services.OptumHealth Financial, part of UnitedHealth Group Inc., Minnetonka, Minn., runs a bank ...
March 03, 2008
New Michigan Coalition Strives To Cover UninsuredRepresentatives from insurers, health systems, unions, employers and religious institutions are teaming up to help residents of their state who lack health insurance.The organizers have ...
March 02, 2008
Annual Health Costs Seen Hitting $4.3 Trillion By 2017, Report FindsPrescription drug prices will continue to moderate, but growth there and in an "other private health care" category will contribute to another decade of skyrocketing U.S. health expenditures.