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.
Is the Health Care Reform Summit Worth It?
By Heather Trese, Heather TreseTomorrow’s health reform summit is meant to be a bipartisan effort to bring together all the ideas out there about health reform and try to ...
February 23, 2010
Guardian Sweetens Disability PoliciesGuardian Life Insurance Company of America will now protect the income that medical and dental professionals use to re-pay student loans.
February 23, 2010
Gibbs: Federal Health Rate Regulator Not A New AgencyObama administration officials want the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to work with state insurance regulators to oversee health insurance prices, rather than creating a new price review agency.
February 23, 2010
Obama Plan Faces Jeers From NAIC, NAMIC, AALTCIThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners is ready to oppose any health bill provisions that would permit federal preemption of state insurance rate regulation, an official says.
February 23, 2010
ACLI Attacks Obama Plan To Tax Some Annuity IncomeLife insurers are blasting an Obama administration effort to raise revenue for Medicare by imposing a new tax on high-income Americans' earnings from annuities and other investment vehicles.
February 23, 2010
Is the Health Care Reform Summit Worth It?The health reform summit is meant to be a bipartisan effort to bring together all the ideas out there about health reform and try to come to some kind of solution. But will it?
February 23, 2010
Health update: Internet use cuts senior depressionOne of the directives of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was to apportion $7 billion for the expansion of broadband Internet availability throughout the country.
February 23, 2010
Disability Bits: Unum, Guardian, Fineos, Crowe Paradis, PetersenUnum Group Corp. is selling new voluntary benefits products through the Simply Unum program.