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.
Analyst: PPACA exchange sales high enough to help hospitals
By Allison BellOfficials estimate the exchange system already has 11.3 million 2016 plan selectors.
January 07, 2016
Disability Insurance Observer: Oscar MunozThe case of the new CEO of United Continental has lessons for sellers, and buyers, of many protection products.
January 07, 2016
Bill Gross: Deficits Plus Demographics Equal DisasterAs more retirees burden fewer workers, Americans will need "extra doses of Xanax, or additional slices of cake, to cope," says the bond guru.
January 07, 2016
Gross says invest in developing world as U.S. population agesA top money manager thinks harder about how the silver tsunami should affect investment allocations.
January 07, 2016
Walgreens earnings beat on prescriptions; retail sales dropSame-store pharmacy sales were 9.3 percent higher than they were in the company's first fiscal quarter.
January 07, 2016
UniQure’s gene therapy boosts clotting in two hemophiliacsIn the United States, the currently approved drugs cost $300,000 or more per year.
January 07, 2016
United CEO Munoz has heart transplant with return still seenMunoz was hired Sept. 8 and had a heart attack Oct. 15.
January 06, 2016
The “Uber of Insurance” is hereThe startup company Lemonade seeks to disrupt the insurance industry.