All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 28 2013 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Tuesday it will offer health insurance benefits to domestic partners of its U.S. employees starting next year, following the lead of other major companies.The world’s largest retailer,...
Aug 23 2013 // If uninsured young Americans shun the new health plans offered under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law, it will be because the insurance costs too much and not because they don’t expect to need...
Aug 22 2013 // Four companies have declared their intentions to sell health insurance to Nebraskans who can’t get coverage from their employers.The companies are Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska; Coventry Health Care, of...
Aug 21 2013 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has joined other Republicans lawmakers around the country in questioning privacy issues surrounding the navigators hired to walk people through their health insurance options under the Affordable...
Aug 16 2013 // A year ago, Teresa Hartnett was on the verge of expanding her small business. The company had hit $1 million in sales, and requests from clients were flowing in. She planned to transition from nearly 30 freelancers to a...
Aug 13 2013 // Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called on the Obama administration to delay the Oct. 1 opening of exchanges where uninsured Americans will be able to buy health insurance until the U.S. government can...
Aug 12 2013 // Just down from the Target and Gander Mountain big-box stores and between a nail salon and dental office in Morrisville, North Carolina’s largest health insurer opened its first retail store.It has some exercise...
Aug 9 2013 // One casualty of the new health care law may be paid coverage for families of people who work for small businesses.Insurance companies have already warned small business customers that premiums could rise 20 percent or more...
Aug 9 2013 // Missouri insurance regulators announced a million-dollar settlement with a major health insurer over alleged violations that include denying childhood immunization and cancer screening claims.The Missouri Department of...