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.
PPACA: How Small is Small?
By Allison BellA National Association of Insurance Commissioners panel has been thinking about how the term "small group" should be defined in minimum medical loss ratio regulations.
September 30, 2010
Bring on the Good GuysBring on the Good GuysI have written a lot about industry reputation lately, and on how the general public vilifies insurance by default. A while ...
September 29, 2010
JHA: Group LTD Sales Fall 21%The great recession hit new U.S. group short-term disability and long-term disability insurance sales hard in the first half of the year.
September 29, 2010
PPACA: Republicans Take Poke at Grandfather RegsThe Republicans today drew attention to their distaste for the Affordable Care Act by forcing a vote on Senate Joint Resolution 39, a measure that could have killed a set of act implementation regulations.
September 29, 2010
HHS Inspector General OKs Medigap Hospital Network IncentiveA watchdog agency says a Medicare supplement insurer can use a $100 premium credit to reward enrollees who stay at hospitals in a preferred hospital network.
September 29, 2010
PPACA: States Scramble to Save Child-Only PoliciesMany states are adopting special open-enrollment periods in an effort to keep new Affordable Care Act rules from chasing carriers from the child-only health insurance market.
September 29, 2010
Robert Frost and MedicareIn "The Road Not Taken", poet Robert Frost wrote: "I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
September 29, 2010
PPACA: Republicans Take Poke at Grandfather RegsThe Republicans today drew attention to their distaste for the Affordable Care Act by forcing a vote on Senate Joint Resolution 39, a measure that could have killed a set of act implementation regulations.