All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 17 2010 // Nearly one in four Californians under age 65 lacked health insurance during all or part of last year, well above the latest national average, in a trend fueled by shrinking coverage due to mounting job layoffs, a new study...
Mar 11 2010 // She told a health insurance industry group that costs and premiums would rise to unsustainable levels and more Americans and businesses would drop coverage if the overhaul of the $2.5 trillion healthcare system were...
Mar 10 2010 // Iowa’s largest health insurance provider will delay a planned premium increase after Gov. Chet Culver raised questions about the higher rates to the state insurance commissioner.Culver sent a letter to Insurance...
Mar 9 2010 // Consumers in North Carolina were able to recover more than $9 million from insurance companies in 2009 with the assistance of the state insurance department. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said the recovery came from...
Mar 3 2010 // The federal government is seeking Medicare reimbursements from lawyers, manufacturers and insurers that were involved in a $300 million settlement over widespread PCB contamination in the east Alabama city of Anniston.A...
Mar 2 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has joined colleagues from two other states in opposing interstate health insurance options.Praeger, along with state insurance commissioners from Oklahoma and West Virginia,...
Mar 2 2010 // An insurance company operating in Hawaii and 20 other states has been ordered to stop marketing and enrollment of new members to its Medicare Part D prescription drug plan.The order affecting Fox Insurance Co. of New York...
Feb 26 2010 // High percentages of minorities, foreign-born residents and college-aged people in Nebraska lack health insurance, according to new report.The Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha...
Feb 24 2010 // President Obama’s latest push for a health care overhaul could drive health plans around the country into insolvency, according to an insurance trade group.A plan released Monday by the White House would give the...
Feb 24 2010 // The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to take a 65-year-old antitrust exemption away from health insurance companies, leaning hard on an industry that has been the focus of criticism for fast-rising rates.The...
Feb 23 2010 // The Obama administration on Tuesday threw its weight behind a bid to repeal an anti-trust exemption protecting health insurers, keeping the industry in its crosshairs as it prepares to host a bipartisan summit on revamping...
Feb 22 2010 // President Barack Obama tried to rejuvenate his stalled U.S. health care overhaul Monday with a revised plan to make insurance coverage more affordable and bolster federal authority to regulate premium hikes.The proposal...
Feb 22 2010 // Health insurers, makers of brand-name drugs and generic drugmakers are among the industry players who see further pressure in President Barack Obama’s health care proposal released Monday.The White House plans to...
Feb 22 2010 // Free-standing legislation introduced by Reps. Betsy Markey of Colorado and Thomas Perriello of Virginia to amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act for health insurers no longer includes text to remove the limited antitrust...
Feb 18 2010 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division has finalized changes to its health insurance rate review process that make all information submitted as part of an insurance company’s...
Feb 12 2010 // Health insurer WellPoint Inc. defended its rate hike of up to 39 percent for certain California customers as Democrats latched onto the increase to press their case for overhauling the U.S. healthcare system.The...
Feb 11 2010 // President Barack Obama has asked Republicans to bring their best ideas on healthcare reform to a televised bipartisan meeting later this month that Democrats hope will help restart the stalled healthcare overhaul...
Feb 10 2010 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, responding to a dramatic proposed rate hike by WellPoint’s California affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross, has called on WellPoint executives to postpone the rate increase,...
Feb 3 2010 // The U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week on repealing the antitrust exemption for health insurers, but Democrats remained uncertain Tuesday on how to proceed on a broader healthcare overhaul.Senate Democratic...
Feb 2 2010 // The Obama administration’s latest spending plan calls for modest changes to the U.S. health care system but does little to incorporate sweeping moves called for Democrats’ larger plan to increase access and...