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.
Letter to the editor: More about inflation protection
By Dennis H. LentinIn a February 2009 letter to the editor of LTC e-Wire, Dennis Lentin writed abouit how ignoring inflation protection is wrong and shold not be allowed.
February 11, 2009
A 2009 Perspective On Employer-Provided Health BenefitsEmployer-provided health benefit plans in 2009 will continue to emphasize engaging plan members in how to better use health care goods and services through "financial tension" at the point of care...
February 10, 2009
DMEC To Offer Benefits WebinarsThe Disability Management Employer Coalition is presenting a series of Web forums aimed at benefits brokers and human resources managers.
February 10, 2009
Service To Combine Health Data, AnalysisA health risk assessment vendor is teaming with a worksite clinic operator.
February 10, 2009
Negotiators Slash COBRA SubsidyBudget hawks in the Senate have persuaded Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., to cut $5 billion in health benefits continuation aid from the latest version of the economic stimulus package.
February 10, 2009
Letter to the editor: group policies are growing fastIn a letter to the editor of LTC e-Wire, Phyllis Shelton, president of LTC Consultants and LTCiTraining.com Hendersonville, Tenn., disagrees with points made in a January 2009 LTC e-Wire article, "Gaining traction for LTC insurance."
February 10, 2009
Empire State Officials Contest Health BillsA managed care company should return $3.9 million of the $71.6 million that New York state paid the company for administering a state employee health plan from 2004 to 2007, state officials say.
February 10, 2009
Bill With COBRA Provision Passes In SenateMembers of the Senate today voted 61-37 to pass an amended version of H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.