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.
Consumers on Health Exchanges: ?
By Staff WriterMillions of U.S. residents are supposed to pour into new health insurance distribution exchanges in 2014, but only 3% say they are very or extremely familiar with the exchange concept.
September 27, 2011
OPM: Non-Postal Federal Health Rates to Rise 3.8%The average premium for Federal Employees Health Benefits coverage will rise only about half as fast in 2012 as it did this year, officials say.
September 27, 2011
Segal: Health Plans Beat Cost ExpectationsHealth care costs continued to climb in 2010, but not nearly as quickly as carriers and plan administrators had predicted.
September 27, 2011
Out with the oldIn 1942, Joseph Schumpeter used the phrase "creative destruction" to describe "a process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one."
September 27, 2011
PPACA: HHS Seeks Carriers for Primary Care Investment ProjectThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants to try teaming up with public and private health plans to invest in modernizing primary care medical practices.
September 26, 2011
EBRI: Group Health Erosion Likely to ContinueEnrollment in employer-sponsored health plans fell in 2010 and seems to be falling again this year.
September 26, 2011
NAIC Panel Wrestles with Retiree Benefits AccountingState insurance regulators are wrestling with questions about whether the benefits insurance company employers have offered employees are promises or heartfelt wishes.
September 26, 2011
GAO: TRICARE Young Adult Coverage Expansion Implementation Costs MinimalThe health program that covers military dependents is offering access to dependents up to age 26, and, so far, the cost of setting up that feature seems to be low.