All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 18 2013 // It turns out that the state of Florida has yet another major decision to make in the next few months when it comes to the federal healthcare overhaul.The state may be forced to make sweeping changes to its health insurance...
Jan 17 2013 // If you like your 401(k) retirement savings account, you’re going to love what healthcare reform does to your employer-provided health care plan.In a post-Obamacare future, expect more employers to adopt defined...
Jan 11 2013 // The United States could save $2 trillion in healthcare spending over the next decade, if the U.S. government used its influence in the public and private sectors to nudge soaring costs into line with economic growth, a...
Jan 8 2013 // The Florida Hospital group has announced it will begin offering patients health insurance starting in January 2014.The Daytona-based Florida Hospital, which has five hospitals in the state, is part of the Adventist Health...
Jan 7 2013 // Mississippi’s proposed health insurance exchange is in limbo because of a dispute between the governor and the insurance commissioner.Gov. Phil Bryant and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, both Republicans,...
Jan 7 2013 // Injecting a rare shot of bipartisanship in the nation’s contentious health care overhaul, the Obama administration Thursday cleared four Republican-led states to build their own consumer-friendly insurance...
Jan 3 2013 // Florida-based title insurer and financial services firm Fidelity National Financial Inc. has acquired Digital Insurance Inc., a health insurance distribution and benefits management firm for small and medium sized...
Dec 31 2012 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens has signed an order allowing insurance companies to begin selling individual policies for children next year. Hudgens says people who are uninsured or whose employers do not...
Dec 14 2012 // Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter said a state-built health insurance exchange is the best option for Idaho under the federal government’s health care overhaul, but left the final decision up to lawmakers who...
Dec 13 2012 // Only 15 U.S. states plan to operate health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama’s reform law, leaving Washington with the daunting prospect of creating and operating the new online marketplaces in at...
Dec 12 2012 // Utah Gov. Gary Herbert asked President Barack Obama on Tuesday for help getting the state’s small-business health insurance marketplace approved as good enough for Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
Dec 12 2012 // Colorado, Oregon and Washington are among the first six states to get preliminary approval from the Obama Administration to operate a health insurance exchange.The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services announced the...
Dec 12 2012 // Gov. Bill Haslam announced this week that Tennessee will not create a state-run health insurance exchange, but the Republican governor said he remains undecided about whether to expand Medicaid.Haslam said in a speech to...
Dec 10 2012 // An American Medical Association analysis found that South Carolina has one of the country’s least competitive health insurance markets. The country’s leading lobby group for physicians said South Carolina has...
Dec 6 2012 // Rose Wang looks at her staff of 70 employees and wonders if she’ll have to lay off some of them to comply with the health care law.The owner of Binary Group Inc., an information technology firm based in Alexandria,...
Dec 5 2012 // An American Medical Association study concludes that North Dakota’s health insurance market is almost a monopoly but the state’s dominant health insurer says consumers are not getting gouged.The study says a...
Dec 5 2012 // Colorado officials say health care reform has given them the power to curb insurance rate hikes.Those curbs helped the state block a 24 percent increase request by Cigna. According to the Denver Post Cigna wanted to raise...
Nov 29 2012 // Officials in Cedar Falls, Iowa, plan to reduce dozens of part-time public employees’ hours in order to avoid having to offer them insurance under a requirement of the federal health care overhaul set to take effect...
Nov 26 2012 // A Republican state lawmaker says Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan should pay $500 for every Michigan resident as part of legislation that would convert the company from a charitable trust of the state to a customer-owned...
Nov 21 2012 // The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed new health insurance rules aimed at ending discrimination against the sick and guaranteeing minimum benefits for millions of Americans who are expected to obtain coverage under...