Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
280,000 Kentuckians to Give Up Their Current Health Insurance Policies
Nov 4 2013 // About 280,000 Kentuckians will have to give up their current insurance policies in the months ahead and enroll in alternatives that comply with the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care reform law. Kentucky...
N.Y. Expects 100,000 to Change Health Insurance Under Federal Overhaul
Nov 4 2013 // New York health officials say that about 100,000 individuals will have to change their health insurance under the federal health care overhaul. According to the state Health Department, those changes are required where...
Obama Administration Under Fire for Individual Health Policy Cancellations
Oct 30 2013 // President Barack Obama’s advisers deliberately crafted his signature healthcare law to fulfill his oft-repeated promise: those who like their insurance can keep it. Even with that provision, Obama administration...
Illinois Insurance Brokers Frustrated with Health Care Law
Oct 25 2013 // Insurance brokers in Illinois vented their frustrations recently with the troubled rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care law and the crippled federal website, HealthCare.gov. Dozens attended a meeting with...
137,800 in Mississippi Fall in Health Insurance ‘Coverage Gap’
Oct 21 2013 // A new study shows 137,800 low-income Mississippians fall into a health insurance “coverage gap.” They’re currently uninsured. They earn too much to enroll in Medicaid but too little to qualify for...
Confusion Still Major Hurdle in Florida for New Health Care Law
Oct 21 2013 // As federal health officials work around the clock to fix technology glitches plaguing the website where U.S. citizens can obtain health insurance under the new federal law, many Floridians still have little understanding...
Study: Michigan Auto Costs Can Drop if Lifetime Care Stays
Oct 16 2013 // Michigan can lower auto insurance premiums without making major changes to the state’s no-fault system proposed in legislation that has stalled for months, according to a nonpartisan report issued Oct. 14. The...
State Regulators Warn on Misleading Health Insurance Websites
Oct 15 2013 // Insurance regulators and an industry trade group are warning that this month’s roll-out of the health insurance marketplaces created by federal law opened the door for bad actors at the same time that it has given...
Analysis: Health Insurance Prices for 3 Illinois Households
Oct 10 2013 // How much will an Illinois fast food cook pay for insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law? How about a preschool teacher? Or a freelance writer? Price information has been difficult to come by because...
Health Insurance Contractor to Add 477 Jobs in Lawton, Oklahoma
Oct 7 2013 // A federal contractor said it will hire nearly 500 people in Lawton, Okla., to help support the new health insurance exchanges created under the federal health care law. Serco North America announced that it will lease a...
Stakeholders to TDI: Not So Fast on Marketplace Navigator Rules
Oct 4 2013 // State lawmakers and representatives from health insurance marketplace navigator organizations are questioning both the timing of an effort by Texas regulators to craft rules regarding navigators and the need for rules that...
Judge Allows Tennessee Rules on Health Insurance Navigators
Oct 2 2013 // A judge refused to block emergency rules covering people who dispense advice on the new health insurance exchange in Tennessee that launched Tuesday. Chancellor Russell T. Perkins ruled Monday evening that the...
Report: Oklahomans Can Access 53 Health Care Plans
Sep 27 2013 // Oklahomans will pay less than the national average for health insurance under an exchange scheduled to open next week as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, according to a report by the U.S....
Maine Officials Warn Consumers About Scammers Using Health Reform Law
Sep 26 2013 // Maine’s Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa and Gov. Paul R. LePage are warning the public about scams related to the federal health reform law (ACA). Officials say various schemes have been reported throughout the...
Louisiana Commissioner: Complexity of Health Law ‘Mind-Boggling’
Sep 25 2013 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner said that there is “no way at all” that people have enough information to make decisions when the new health insurance marketplaces created by the federal Affordable...
Nonprofit Health Insurance Company Forming in Wisconsin
Sep 24 2013 // Business leaders and community organizers in Milwaukee, Wis., have formed a nonprofit health insurance company to provide coverage to small businesses and individuals. Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative is one of 24...
Arkansas: Health Insurance Rates Lower than Expected in New Marketplace
Sep 24 2013 // With 71 qualified health insurance plans to be sold on the individual market in the new health insurance marketplace, Arkansas officials say health insurance premium rates are coming in lower than expected. Arkansas...
Technology, Not Presidents, Drives Healthcare Costs
Sep 23 2013 // Last week I attended Brookings Papers on Economic Activity to watch some of the smartest economists in America debate some of the most interesting papers. The very first paper presented is of particularly timely interest:...
Local Firms in Pennsylvania Take ‘Wait and See’ Approach to Health Care Law
Sep 21 2013 // The mandate that large employers provide health care coverage to their employees has been put off until 2015, but some businesses have already started changing health care benefits. Still, many local employers in Bucks...
New Rules for Civil Settlement in Illinois: What Defendants and Insurers Need to Know
Sep 20 2013 // On August 26, 2013, Gov. Quinn signed into law Public Act 098-0548, which amends the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, and creates a new statutory section addressing settlements and liens in civil cases. The new statute,...
