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.
Strange Bedfellows? Group Unites Old Foes in Hunt for Health Fix
By Zachary TracerAndy Slavitt has returned, as the head of the United States of Care.
February 06, 2018
Secret Discounts Kept Soaring Drug Bills Down, Says MiddlemanExpress Scripts says it held per-capita increases in drug costs for its customers' plans to 1.5% last year.
February 05, 2018
Your Medigap Clients Will Soon Get New Medicare CardsThe card mailing waves will start this April and run until sometime this summer.
February 05, 2018
China's Next Debt Bomb Is an Aging PopulationThe government has had to make up for shortfalls in employer pension plan funding since 2014.
February 05, 2018
Extend-and-Pretend Model Can't Work Forever'Kicking the can down the road' may be more popular than effective.
February 05, 2018
Trump NHS Tweet Angers Brits Fearing U.S.-Style Health CareU.K. protesters fear underfunding, and also the threat of privatization.
February 03, 2018
LifeSecure Rolls Out Critical Illness PolicyThe policy will cover skin cancer as well as heart attacks, strokes and invasive cancer.
February 03, 2018
U.S. Hospitals Overflow as Flu Epidemic Spreads UnabatedThe current flu season could generate more use of hospitals than the 2014-2015 flu season.