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.
The Health Insurance Exchange Opportunity
By Ron GoldsteinThis last October, then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger authorized the establishment of a health insurance exchange in California pursuant to the mandate laid out in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
December 17, 2010
PPACA: Another Judge Eyes MandateA federal judge in Pensacola, Fla., seems to have questions about whether the Affordable Care Act individual health coverage ownership mandate is constitutional.
December 17, 2010
Wisconsin Gauges Effect of Young Adult MandateThe percentage of health plan members who take advantage of new young adult coverage access mandates may be small.
December 16, 2010
CDC: High-Deductible Health Coverage Rates RiseThe percentage of U.S. residents with no health coverage, or health coverage with a high deductible and no personal health account, continues to rise.
December 16, 2010
PPACA: Exchanges May Face Marketing ChallengesAbout a third of the uninsured people who might be eligible to buy subsidized coverage through a health insurance exchange in 2014 have had no recent health or care access problems, researchers say.
December 16, 2010
NAIC OKs Health Advisor Task Force ChargeState insurance regulators decided early on during a National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting to try to protect producers from being hurt by the new medical loss ratio rules.
December 16, 2010
Steve Kimbell to Lead Vermont DepartmentPeter Shumlin, the Vermont governor elect, has picked Steve Kimbell to be the state's next commissioner of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration.
December 16, 2010
Congress puts off until tomorrow what it needs to do todayThe threatened Medicare doctor pay cut has once again been narrowly averted thanks to lawmakers in Washington.