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.
Former Health Agent To Run NAHU
By Staff WriterThe National Association of Health Underwriters has promoted Janet Trautwein to chief executive officer.[@@]Trautwein, previously vice president of government affairs at NAHU, Arlington, Va., ...
August 31, 2005
Researchers Say Medicare Still Penalizes PPOsCongress and the Bush administration have tried to welcome private preferred provider organization plans into the Medicare managed care market, but significant barriers remain.[@@]A ...
August 31, 2005
NAIC Budget Projects Slight Spending HikeThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners released a proposed 2006 budget that calls for a nearly 4% increase in spending over the current plan.The ...
August 31, 2005
Employers Want Big Changes To Health Care SystemEmployers are beginning to insist health care providers make available cost and quality information that will help them make better-informed health care buying decisions, ...
August 31, 2005
The Top Five Misconceptions About Corporate LTC InsuranceOld clich?s about group LTC policies are no longer trueWhile individual long term care insurance sales remain relatively flat, the employer market for LTC ...
August 31, 2005
Voluntary Benefits: R For Health Care CostsSome workplace benefits may help ease consumer worries about costly medical eventsConsumers have more debt than ever before, which means they need to find ...
August 31, 2005
An Affinity For Group SalesBusiness groups provide a ready market for agents targeting small businessesMarketing voluntary benefits through trade associations and other business affinity groups represents an excellent ...
August 31, 2005
Policymakers Ponder Role Of Feds In Helping Uninsured BoomersU.S. health insurance groups now seem to agree with consumer groups that the government should help baby boomers with health problems buy health coverage.Although ...