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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.
Mysteries of how Obamacare affected the uninsured
By Megan McArdleThe numbers surveys get often depend partly on the numbers organizers want to get.
September 14, 2016
3 ACA individual health market survival ideasHouse hearing witnesses talk about how to keep the limits on medical underwriting alive.
September 14, 2016
3 ACA individual health market survival ideasHouse hearing witnesses talk about how to keep the limits on medical underwriting alive.
September 14, 2016
Regulators post LTCI reserve-testing draftThe new approach could apply to the reports for Dec. 31, 2017
September 14, 2016
Medicare-ACA double dipper hunting season starts nowExchanges are seeking older consumers who have both Medicare and exchange plan subsidies.
September 14, 2016
Medicare-ACA double dipper hunting season starts nowExchanges are seeking older consumers who have both Medicare and exchange plan subsidies.
September 14, 2016
Ivanka Trump takes bow for father’s caregiver support proposalsA family could use a Trump DCSA to pay for either child care or elder care.
September 14, 2016
Workers’ up-front health costs keep rising, Kaiser study saysAbout half of employees are in plans with an individual coverage deductible of at least $1,000.