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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.
Regulator Discusses Risk Pool Drawbacks
By Staff WriterMembers of Congress should be wary of relying on high-risk pools for ensuring that Americans with health problems can get health coverage.Mila Kofman, the Maine ...
September 22, 2008
Hewitt: Health Costs To Rise 6.4%The underlying cost of health care for employer health plans may increase about 6.4% in 2009.Consultants at Hewitt Associates Inc., Lincolnshire, Ill, have published that ...
September 22, 2008
Regence: Few Know Health Plan JargonOnly about 4% of consumers understand health plan terms the way health plans understand the terms.Researchers at Regence, Portland, Ore., a group of Blue Cross ...
September 22, 2008
Hewitt: Health Costs To Rise 6.4%The underlying cost of health care for employer health plans may increase about 6.4% in 2009.Consultants at Hewitt Associates Inc., Lincolnshire, Ill, have published that ...
September 22, 2008
Fields Leaves HealthMarketsA health insurer has announced the departure of a high-level executive.HealthMarkets Inc., North Richland Hills, Texas, says David Fields has resigned from his positions as ...
September 22, 2008
Senate Gets Amputee BillSenators have introduced a bill that would require health insurers to cover prosthetic devices.The bill, S. 3517, was cosponsored by Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Tom ...
September 22, 2008
Senate Gets Amputee BillSenators have introduced a bill that would require health insurers to cover prosthetic devices.The bill, S. 3517, was cosponsored by Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Tom ...
September 21, 2008
Lies, Damned Lies And Offshore OutsourcingThe redoubtable Mark Twain is said to have written that, "Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which ...