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.
Suicide Rate for Baby Boomers Increases, Reversing Trend
By Danielle AndrusThe suicide rate among boomers is increasing, despite decades-long downward trend.
September 27, 2010
Affinion: Bank Insurance Customers Stick AroundConsumers who buy insurance through banks and other financial institutions tend to maintain long relationships with those institutions.
September 27, 2010
Hewitt: Health Costs to Rise 8.8%Large U.S. employers are expecting to pay an average of $9,821 in health insurance premiums per employee in 2011, up from an average of $9,028 this year.
September 27, 2010
NAIFA: Good News, Bad NewsThe National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) has helped agents stay in the health coverage ballgame.
September 27, 2010
Fasola To Lead HealthMarketsKenneth Fasola will be taking over for Anurag Chandra as president and chief operating officer of HealthMarkets Inc.
September 27, 2010
PPACA: Commenters Ask for Commonsense LimitsAffordable Care Act implementation guidelines should let insurers and health plans impose sensible limits on use of medical services.
September 27, 2010
California Makes Early Progress on Healthcare ExchangesCalifornia, with a state government as vast and complex as many developed nations, is posed to take on a new role as the blueprint for a new distribution mechanism.
September 27, 2010
You Might Feel a Slight PinchCritical first implementation steps in the healthcare reform law went into effect last week, and a flurry of new proposals, guidance and directives regarding the law were issued by federal agencies.