All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2013 // Business leaders and community organizers in Milwaukee, Wis., have formed a nonprofit health insurance company to provide coverage to small businesses and individuals.Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative is one of 24...
Sep 24 2013 // With 71 qualified health insurance plans to be sold on the individual market in the new health insurance marketplace, Arkansas officials say health insurance premium rates are coming in lower than expected.Arkansas...
Sep 23 2013 // Last week I attended Brookings Papers on Economic Activity to watch some of the smartest economists in America debate some of the most interesting papers. The very first paper presented is of particularly timely interest:...
Sep 21 2013 // The mandate that large employers provide health care coverage to their employees has been put off until 2015, but some businesses have already started changing health care benefits.Still, many local employers in Bucks...
Sep 20 2013 // On August 26, 2013, Gov. Quinn signed into law Public Act 098-0548, which amends the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, and creates a new statutory section addressing settlements and liens in civil cases.The new statute,...
Sep 19 2013 // Texas’ top insurance regulator has found herself in the midst of a battle over rules that govern those who will provide information to consumers about the health insurance exchanges that are a part of the U.S....
Sep 19 2013 // Many Vermont employers are struggling with the decision whether to continue their workers on health insurance or allow them to buy it individually and take advantage of federal tax credits.At a forum Wednesday in...
Sep 19 2013 // State lawmakers said they are concerned about a shortage of people helping Louisiana residents sign up for new insurance options available under the federal health care law.The worries came up as the House and Senate...
Sep 19 2013 // Barack Obama wanted to change American health-care as we know it. And he is, in ways that go far beyond the goals of the Affordable Care Act.For weeks, headlines have cataloged the upheaval at private employers: UPS...
Sep 18 2013 // The share of Americans who get health insurance through their jobs fell for the fourth straight year as aging baby boomers piled into the U.S. government’s Medicare plan and other adults sought coverage on their...
Sep 13 2013 // They have rented offices and zero customers. All their capital is borrowed. They’re trying to sign the kind of expensive, chronically ill individuals that insurers have avoided for decades. In three weeks they face...
Sep 13 2013 // Florida was strongly criticized by the federal government on Thursday for barring outreach workers, known as “navigators,” from county health departments when they start enrolling people next month for...
Sep 12 2013 // Oregon health officials are considering whether to use the state’s authority to approve or reject health insurance premiums as a tool to drive down health care costs.The idea is one of several suggestions for...
Sep 10 2013 // Korey Kormick, 29, has not had health insurance for at least a decade. His job, as a contract employee directing chess tournaments and coaching kids in the fundamentals of the game, doesn’t offer it, and he...
Sep 10 2013 // Iowa’s insurance commissioner says he needs a commitment from a national insurer before he can release pricing information on policies to be sold on the state’s new health insurance exchange.The prices were...
Sep 9 2013 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney plans to move ahead with a health insurance exchange for small businesses after federal officials approved regulations to allow the move.The Department of Health and Human...
Sep 6 2013 // Kansas City, Missouri, and Indianapolis residents with private health plans face some of the widest disparities in U.S. hospital costs, often being charged twice as much as nearby facilities, a study found.The...
Sep 4 2013 // A proposed South Dakota ballot measure would prohibit insurance companies from restricting their customers’ choice of out-of-network health care providers.The proposed law, sponsored by three South Dakota doctors,...
Sep 3 2013 // Two South Texas counties have among the highest rates of people without health insurance in the nation, with working Hispanic men in South Texas the most likely to not have coverage, according to data released by the U.S....
Sep 3 2013 // RGEB Employee Benefits has acquired the individual, Medicare and group health insurance business of Archer Weiss, a firm providing health insurance plans for clients in Southern California.The transaction will increase...