Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Why Allowing Health Insurance Sales Across State Lines Won’t Help
Mar 7 2017 // The effort to replace Obamacare faces increasing challenges, the more it is subjected to the harsh light of scrutiny. A good example is the proposal, apparently central to the Republican replacement plans, to allow people...
Here Is a Section-by-Section Summary of Republicans’ Health Care Act
Mar 7 2017 // The following summary of the American Health Care Act, meant as a repeal and replacement for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), has been prepared by the Republican staff of the House Committee on Ways and Means. A copy...
House Republicans Unwrap Long-Awaited Obamacare Replacement Bill
Mar 6 2017 // Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew...
California DIR Suspends 7 Workers’ Comp Medical Providers for Fraud
Mar 6 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended seven medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system. The providers...
Trump Seeks Help from Insurers, Governors in Overhauling Health Insurance
Feb 28 2017 // President Donald Trump sought on Monday to bring the nation’s largest insurance companies on board with his plans to overhaul Obamacare, saying their help was needed to deliver a smooth transition to the...
Republicans’ Replacement for Obamacare Taking Shape
Feb 27 2017 // Republican lawmakers expect that their Obamacare replacement will result in fewer Americans covered by health insurance, a fact that’s likely to increase blowback amid growing support for the program. New details of...
Surprising Facts About Social Security and Medicare
Feb 22 2017 // While the era of “alternative facts” dawned in Washington last week, experts from across the ideological spectrum gathered in the capital for a review of real facts about our two most important retirement...
California DIR Suspends 7 Workers’ Comp Medical Providers for Fraud
Feb 17 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended seven medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system. The providers...
Citing Trump’s Order, IRS Stops Enforcing Individual Mandate for Health Insurance
Feb 16 2017 // The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will no longer require tax filers to indicate whether they had health coverage or paid a penalty set under Obamacare, dealing a blow to a pillar of the healthcare law, the website...
Aetna, Humana Officially End Merger Deal; Won’t Appeal Court Ruling
Feb 14 2017 // Health insurers Aetna Inc. and Humana Inc. walked away from their $34 billion merger deal on Tuesday, after a U.S. judge ruled in January the combination would stifle competition in the private Medicare Advantage program...
Obamacare Foe, Former Surgeon Price Sworn In as Health Secretary
Feb 13 2017 // Tom Price was sworn in as U.S. secretary of health on Friday, putting in place a determined opponent of Obamacare to help President Donald Trump dismantle his predecessor’s law and reshape the nation’s...
Facebook Co-Founder Leads Financing for Online Health Insurance Startup
Feb 10 2017 // Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital Group has led a new financing round for a Singapore-based online health insurance service that values the startup at $100 million. Singaporean government...
Health Insurers Weigh Next Moves After Striking Out on Mergers
Feb 10 2017 // After 18 months of courtship and court cases, two massive deals that would have reshaped the U.S. health insurance industry have both been declared dead, blocked by judges who said they’d do unacceptable harm to...
Federal Judge Halts Anthem-Cigna Merger as Harmful to Competition
Feb 8 2017 // A federal judge on Wednesday ruled against U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc.’s proposed $54 billion merger with smaller rival Cigna Corp., derailing an unprecedented effort to consolidate the country’s health...
Report: Many Iowa Lawmakers Underpay for Health Insurance
Feb 3 2017 // An analysis by The Des Moines Register shows more than two-thirds of Iowa legislators are paying hundreds of dollars less a month than appropriate for their health insurance, a potential violation of state law. Data...
Health Insurers in Limbo Due to Uncertainty Around Affordable Care Act
Feb 1 2017 // Obamacare looks like it’s going away. Until that happens, big health insurers aren’t sure what to do with it. Republicans and President Donald Trump haven’t given details on how they’ll repeal and...
Minnesota Legislature Settles on Plan for Health Insurance Help
Jan 27 2017 // After months of back and forth and uncertainty over whether lawmakers would help more than 100,000 shoppers offset skyrocketing health insurance premiums, Minnesota’s Legislature has closed in on a plan that will...
Now in Paperback: Sales Training Book Equips Millennial Insurance Agents to Serve Retiring Baby Boomers
Jan 25 2017 // Featuring sales tips and scripts from more than 35 experienced insurance agents selling Final Expense life insurance and Medicare Supplements, Portland, OR, January 23, 2017 – Consistently top-rated in Amazon reviews and...
Arizona Governor Offers Proposals for Health Insurance Overhaul
Jan 24 2017 // Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is urging Congress not to repeal former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul without a well-developed replacement plan, suggesting in a letter that it may take three years for a new...
Judge Nixes Aetna’s $37 Billion Purchase of Humana; Aetna Considers Appeal
Jan 23 2017 // Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion deal to buy rival insurer Humana Inc. was blocked by a federal judge, thwarting one of two large mergers that would reshape the U.S. health-care landscape. Aetna said it was considering an...
