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.
Income Product Aims At Teachers
By Staff WriterAssurant Employee Benefits includes features designed to appeal to educators in a new employee-paid disability insurance product.
March 24, 2009
Firm Offers Diabetes ReviewsHewitt Associates Inc. is rolling out a program that can help employers reduce medical claims costs and other costs linked to diabetes.
March 24, 2009
AHIP Repeats Guaranteed Issue OfferHealth insurers are reminding lawmakers of their willingness to provide health coverage to all individuals, regardless of health status, as part of a comprehensive health reform plan that requires individuals to have coverage.
March 24, 2009
Researchers: More Are UninsuredNearly 46 million people in the U.S. were uninsured in 2007, 9 million more than in 1994, when health finance reform efforts last gained momentum.
March 24, 2009
Treasury Outlines Overhaul ProposalThe Obama administration's plans to seek authority to take over troubled non-bank financial services companies create "tremendous concerns" for the state regulatory and guaranty fund system, an industry lawyer said today.
March 24, 2009
AHIP Repeats Guaranteed Issue OfferHealth insurers are reminding lawmakers of their willingness to provide health coverage to all individuals, regardless of health status, as part of a comprehensive health reform plan that requires individuals to have coverage.
March 23, 2009
GAO Wants More SCHIP Crowd-Out DataA U.S. Government Accountability Office director says federal regulators should do more to assess whether public children's health coverage is substituting for private coverage.
March 23, 2009
ACLI Protests Japan Post AppThe American Council of Life Insurers is objecting to the way Japan is handling efforts by a semiprivatized postal life company to compete with private cancer insurers.