All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 29 2013 // As lawmakers in the state of Washington consider moving some part-time government workers out of a state-sponsored health plan and into an insurance exchange developed under the nation’s new health care overhaul law,...
Apr 15 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether private insurers can sue giant drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc over health costs incurred by its Avandia diabetes drug.Humana Inc.’s Humana Medical Plans...
Apr 12 2013 // Far fewer Californians are getting health insurance through their employers compared to a decade ago, a change that comes as the nation is about to undergo major reforms in the health care system, according to a report...
Apr 12 2013 // A new national study shows Idaho is again ranked among states with the lowest percentage of companies that offer workers employer-sponsored health insurance.Idaho ranks 4th nationally – trailing Alaska, Montana and...
Apr 5 2013 // An Iowa Senate panel approved a bill that would give a new income tax break to small businesses if they cover part of their employees’ health insurance.The measure passed a Senate Ways and Means subcommittee with...
Apr 4 2013 // Millions of people who take advantage of government subsidies to help buy health insurance next year could get stung by surprise tax bills if they don’t accurately project their income.President Barack Obama’s...
Mar 26 2013 // Come summer, at least 535 trained guides will start fanning out across Arkansas, knocking on doors, setting up folding chairs in community centers and handing out brochures to spread the word across Arkansas about the...
Mar 25 2013 // Lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday with two days remaining to pass legislation intended to shore up Kentucky’s pension plans for state and local government retirees.Restoring solvency to the pension system,...
Mar 25 2013 // Eight months before President Barack Obama’s health care law goes prime time, a confederation of industry and business groups is ramping up its lobbying apparatus for an 11th-hour assault on the web of new taxes and...
Mar 21 2013 // The Obama administration on Wednesday said its experiments at controlling healthcare costs could need up to a year to produce results, frustrating congressional lawmakers eager to know if new innovations in care delivery...
Mar 21 2013 // A state Senate health committee recommended this week that the state suspend the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s power to set rates for insurers under the Affordable Care Act and instead let the federal...
Mar 14 2013 // Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing taxes.The government’s draft application runs 15 pages for a three-person family. An outline of the online...
Mar 13 2013 // A proposal to establish a state-run health insurance exchange has passed the Senate with bipartisan support.A federal health care law calls for exchanges to serve as a marketplace for the uninsured to shop for medical...
Mar 7 2013 // Most large employers don’t expect to send their full-time employees to government health exchanges for insurance during the next five years, but some retirees and part-time workers will end up there, a new survey has...
Mar 6 2013 // The Minnesota House passed a bill establishing the state’s health insurance exchange, the first step toward enactment of an online marketplace that aims to give more than a million Minnesotans a new place to purchase...
Feb 28 2013 // The political stalemate in Washington regarding the deficit and sequestration is not as dire or depressing as most people and pundits proclaim, and is in fact a positive sign that the country is grappling with important...
Feb 25 2013 // The Obama administration on Friday finalized new consumer safeguards for health insurance that impose tighter restrictions on what insurers can charge older customers, despite industry warnings that the young may be forced...
Feb 19 2013 // When a patient was moved from the intensive care unit to a regular hospital bed, it used to be routine for Dr. Anthony Granato to order 24 hours of heart monitoring, just in case.A few years ago, his thinking changed: If...
Feb 18 2013 // Illinois has received conditional federal approval for its plan to help run an online marketplace where thousands of state residents will shop for health insurance beginning Oct. 1 – a big step toward carrying out...
Feb 17 2013 // Whether it’s the densely populated Southern California coast or the mountains of rural Northern California, geography is going to play a larger role in the cost of health insurance under the federal health care...