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.
Big Employer, M.D.
By staff WriterWorkers at big U.S. employers are more likely than they used to be to turn to their employers and their health plans for health information, according to the National Business Group on Health.
January 31, 2011
Iowa Regulator Rules on Health RatesIowa Insurance Commission Susan Voss lowered one health rate increase that a carrier requested and let another proceed as filed.
January 31, 2011
Get back to basics for client connectionsThese last couple of years there's been one distraction to your book of business after another.
January 31, 2011
AALTCI: LTC Insurers Pay $11 Million a DayThe top 10 U.S. long term care insurers paid about $11 million in daily benefits in 2010, according to the American Association for Long Term Care Insurance.
January 30, 2011
In Turnabout, Democrats Say GOP Has Dropped Job FocusRepublicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs; now GOP lawmakers stand accused of the same charge by Democrats.
January 28, 2011
PPACA: The Battle of the ProjectionsHealth insurers and the Obama administration are clashing over the future effects of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs.
January 28, 2011
Big California Carriers Agree to Rate DealFour large California health insurers will be putting planned rate increases through an extra layer of review.
January 28, 2011
New York: Group Health Opt-Outs Not an OptionAn employee at a New York state employer with true employer-paid group health coverage must stay in the plan -- or else, officials say.