All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2018 // A U.S. government agency on Thursday said Idaho could not allow health insurers to sell plans that do not comply with Obamacare, a sign that the Trump administration will enforce the law even as it takes regulatory actions...
Mar 8 2018 // U.S. health insurer Cigna Corp. struck a $52-billion deal to buy pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) Express Scripts Holding Co on Thursday, looking for new ways to hold onto their profits as the industry faces greater...
Feb 28 2018 // Gov. Scott Walker has signed into law a $200 million measure designed to stabilize the health insurance market under the Affordable Care Act in Wisconsin, after authorizing fellow Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel...
Feb 21 2018 // The Trump administration is proposing to expand the availability of short-term insurance plans, offering a cheaper health coverage option for consumers, while taking another step to undercut Obamacare.The Department of...
Feb 14 2018 // Gov. Scott Walker’s $200 million plan to reduce health care costs for people purchasing insurance through the private marketplace won support from Wisconsin’s health insurance providers, doctors and medical...
Feb 6 2018 // India’s push toward universal health care has Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political opponents worried, a top government adviser said.Modi’s government announced a plan last week to provide health...
Feb 5 2018 // Acting Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman will serve as vice chair of the Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the organization reported...
Jan 22 2018 // Acting Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman will serve as vice chair of the Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the organization reported...
Jan 17 2018 // The number of Americans without healthcare insurance rose by 3.2 million people between 2016 and 2017, or 1.3 percentage points to 12.2 percent, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday, the biggest jump in the...
Jan 5 2018 // The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a rule to allow Americans who are self-employed or work for small businesses to buy health insurance that does not comply with all Obamacare requirements in an effort to unwind...
Dec 27 2017 // Slightly fewer Americans have enrolled for insurance through the federal Obamacare marketplace compared to a year ago, the government said on Thursday, but the number was higher than expected in light of steps taken by...
Dec 22 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 16 more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
Dec 21 2017 // The Senate gave final approval Thursday night to a short-term extension of federal funding to keep the government running for three more weeks while shoving a raft of fiscal and policy fights into the new year.The spending...
Dec 18 2017 // To prepare for the future, business owners need to observe what trends are occurring and then evaluate how those trends could impact their business. It is a guessing game, but an educated guess is usually proven to be...
Dec 13 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Dec 13 2017 // Last week, we looked at some ways that health insurance isn’t like any other kind of insurance. If you missed it, may I commend it to you?5 Reasons Health Insurance Isn’t Like Anything Else This week,...
Dec 7 2017 // In 2016, overall growth in national spending on healthcare slowed in 2016, increasing 4.3 percent following 5.8 percent growth in 2015, according to a report by actuaries with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Dec 6 2017 // This is the time of year when health insurance comes into focus for a lot of people. Open enrollment periods have just closed for many of us so it seems like a good time to write a little bit about health insurance....
Dec 5 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 21 more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ compensation system, bringing the total number of providers suspended...
Dec 4 2017 // Who needs insurance? Not the perfect risk, other than for contractual and legal reasons. The perfect risk has absolutely no chance, not even remotely, of incurring a loss. If an account has almost no probability of...