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.
Microinsurance Body Seeks Proposals
By staff WriterA microinsurance group started with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to hear ideas about ways to get microinsurance to low-income people more efficiently.
November 09, 2010
Why Are Health Insurance Rates in California So High?Everyone's talking about health reform and its estimated additional increases of 3 percent to 6 percent on health care costs. But not many people have talked or written about the other factors affecting the increasing costs in California.
November 09, 2010
Weird ScienceWeird ScienceAccording to a recent article from CNN, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University lost 27 pounds over 10 weeks ...
November 08, 2010
Courts Reject Medicare Skilled Nursing RulesOlder Americans are entitled to Medicare coverage of skilled nursing home care and home health care, even if they are unable to prove such care would improve their conditions, two federal courts ruled recently in separate rulings.
November 08, 2010
Health Care Exchanges Start Taking ShapeWith health care reform implementation an ever-present concern for the industry, the NAIC has drawn up the American Health Benefit Exchange Model Act.
November 08, 2010
Health Insurance Agents Face Bleak FutureThe future role of agents in selling small group and individual health insurance policies is clearly in doubt now that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has decided.
November 08, 2010
Elder Care Costs SurgeNursing home and assisted living rates rose significantly from 2009 to 2010, the MetLife Mature Market Institute (MMMI) reports.