Latest Health Insurance Headlines

All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.

White House Willing to Consider Fix to Stop Health Policy Cancellations

Nov 13 2013 // The Obama administration today indicated it was willing to consider Democratic legislation to halt some of the hundreds of thousands of health insurance policy cancellations that have raised alarm among voters and...

Low Obamacare Enrollment Figures Add to Pressure on White House

Nov 13 2013 // About 106,000 people signed up for insurance coverage nationally under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law during October, the government said on Wednesday, a tiny fraction of the millions of people that had been...

Pittsburgh Bishop: Won’t Let Health Insurer Give Disputed Coverage

Nov 13 2013 // The Roman Catholic bishop of Pittsburgh says that he will refuse to sign a document allowing a third-party insurer to provide preventative reproductive services for employees of a diocese-related charity even if it means...

Massachusetts Health Insurer Lays Off 62 Workers

Nov 11 2013 // A Worcester, Mass.-based health insurance provider has announced that it is laying off 62 workers, or about 6 percent of its total workforce.Fallon Community Health Plan President and Chief Executive Patrick Hughes said in...

U.S. Sen. Toomey Cites Pennsylvania Residents Losing Health Insurance

Nov 8 2013 // U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said thousands of Pennsylvanians are contacting his office with complaints about losing their health insurance because of the federal overhaul, while state insurance regulators put the number of people...

280,000 Kentuckians to Give Up Their Current Health Insurance Policies

Nov 4 2013 // About 280,000 Kentuckians will have to give up their current insurance policies in the months ahead and enroll in alternatives that comply with the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care reform law.Kentucky...

N.Y. Expects 100,000 to Change Health Insurance Under Federal Overhaul

Nov 4 2013 // New York health officials say that about 100,000 individuals will have to change their health insurance under the federal health care overhaul.According to the state Health Department, those changes are required where...

Obama Administration Under Fire for Individual Health Policy Cancellations

Oct 30 2013 // President Barack Obama’s advisers deliberately crafted his signature healthcare law to fulfill his oft-repeated promise: those who like their insurance can keep it.Even with that provision, Obama administration...

Illinois Insurance Brokers Frustrated with Health Care Law

Oct 25 2013 // Insurance brokers in Illinois vented their frustrations recently with the troubled rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care law and the crippled federal website, HealthCare.gov.Dozens attended a meeting with...

137,800 in Mississippi Fall in Health Insurance ‘Coverage Gap’

Oct 21 2013 // A new study shows 137,800 low-income Mississippians fall into a health insurance “coverage gap.”They’re currently uninsured. They earn too much to enroll in Medicaid but too little to qualify for...

Confusion Still Major Hurdle in Florida for New Health Care Law

Oct 21 2013 // As federal health officials work around the clock to fix technology glitches plaguing the website where U.S. citizens can obtain health insurance under the new federal law, many Floridians still have little understanding...

Study: Michigan Auto Costs Can Drop if Lifetime Care Stays

Oct 16 2013 // Michigan can lower auto insurance premiums without making major changes to the state’s no-fault system proposed in legislation that has stalled for months, according to a nonpartisan report issued Oct. 14.The...

State Regulators Warn on Misleading Health Insurance Websites

Oct 15 2013 // Insurance regulators and an industry trade group are warning that this month’s roll-out of the health insurance marketplaces created by federal law opened the door for bad actors at the same time that it has given...

Analysis: Health Insurance Prices for 3 Illinois Households

Oct 10 2013 // How much will an Illinois fast food cook pay for insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law? How about a preschool teacher? Or a freelance writer?Price information has been difficult to come by because...

Health Insurance Contractor to Add 477 Jobs in Lawton, Oklahoma

Oct 7 2013 // A federal contractor said it will hire nearly 500 people in Lawton, Okla., to help support the new health insurance exchanges created under the federal health care law.Serco North America announced that it will lease a...

Stakeholders to TDI: Not So Fast on Marketplace Navigator Rules

Oct 4 2013 // State lawmakers and representatives from health insurance marketplace navigator organizations are questioning both the timing of an effort by Texas regulators to craft rules regarding navigators and the need for rules that...

Judge Allows Tennessee Rules on Health Insurance Navigators

Oct 2 2013 // A judge refused to block emergency rules covering people who dispense advice on the new health insurance exchange in Tennessee that launched Tuesday.Chancellor Russell T. Perkins ruled Monday evening that the state’s...

Report: Oklahomans Can Access 53 Health Care Plans

Sep 27 2013 // Oklahomans will pay less than the national average for health insurance under an exchange scheduled to open next week as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, according to a report by the U.S....

Maine Officials Warn Consumers About Scammers Using Health Reform Law

Sep 26 2013 // Maine’s Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa and Gov. Paul R. LePage are warning the public about scams related to the federal health reform law (ACA).Officials say various schemes have been reported throughout the...

Louisiana Commissioner: Complexity of Health Law ‘Mind-Boggling’

Sep 25 2013 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner said that there is “no way at all” that people have enough information to make decisions when the new health insurance marketplaces created by the federal Affordable...