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.
3 secrets about 2016 group health benefits
By Allison BellPlan sponsors held the monthly premiums steady by changing something else.
August 22, 2016
Back-to-School (Risk) BasicsAn extraordinary array of property and liability risks confronts the parents of children away at boarding school or college.
August 22, 2016
California consumers name their health coverage priceA new Kaiser survey can give agents and brokers a peek inside individual health prospects' heads.
August 22, 2016
3 ways the ACA individual health market foundation crackedMilliman actuaries inspect a program that's supposed to make the system more fair for insurers.
August 22, 2016
New York City hospitals: Unwilling to take stronger medicine?New York Citys public hospitals are in critical condition with rising costs and plummeting revenue.
August 19, 2016
Insurers fight to keep suit over $5 billion in ACA payments aliveThe federal government says its risk corridors payments for 2014 and 2015 are not actually due.
August 19, 2016
Obamacare public option proposal is no longer defensibleIn an insurance mall with bare shelves, a government plan might not help much, the author says.
August 18, 2016
Mosquitoes may be spreading Zika in 9 South Florida areasResearchers say a mouse study shows the virus could hurt adult patients' brains.