Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Governor, State Senator Square Off on Health Exchange Navigator Rules
Sep 19 2013 // Texas’ top insurance regulator has found herself in the midst of a battle over rules that govern those who will provide information to consumers about the health insurance exchanges that are a part of the U.S....
Vermont Employers Wrestle With Health Insurance Change
Sep 19 2013 // Many Vermont employers are struggling with the decision whether to continue their workers on health insurance or allow them to buy it individually and take advantage of federal tax credits. At a forum Wednesday in...
Concerns Raised in Louisiana about Navigating Health Exchange
Sep 19 2013 // State lawmakers said they are concerned about a shortage of people helping Louisiana residents sign up for new insurance options available under the federal health care law. The worries came up as the House and Senate...
Employers Making Benefit Changes Under Cover of Obamacare
Sep 19 2013 // Barack Obama wanted to change American health-care as we know it. And he is, in ways that go far beyond the goals of the Affordable Care Act. For weeks, headlines have cataloged the upheaval at private employers: UPS...
Employer-Based Health Insurance Continues to Decline
Sep 18 2013 // The share of Americans who get health insurance through their jobs fell for the fourth straight year as aging baby boomers piled into the U.S. government’s Medicare plan and other adults sought coverage on their...
Start-Up Health Insurance Co-Ops Vow to Compete with Commercial Insurers
Sep 13 2013 // They have rented offices and zero customers. All their capital is borrowed. They’re trying to sign the kind of expensive, chronically ill individuals that insurers have avoided for decades. In three weeks they face...
Obama Administration Bashes Florida for Blocking Health Insurance Navigators
Sep 13 2013 // Florida was strongly criticized by the federal government on Thursday for barring outreach workers, known as “navigators,” from county health departments when they start enrolling people next month for...
Oregon Looks At Beefing Up Health Insurance Premium Reviews
Sep 12 2013 // Oregon health officials are considering whether to use the state’s authority to approve or reject health insurance premiums as a tool to drive down health care costs. The idea is one of several suggestions for...
Poll Finds Skepticism But Suggests Healthy Young Adults May Keep Obamacare Afloat
Sep 10 2013 // Korey Kormick, 29, has not had health insurance for at least a decade. His job, as a contract employee directing chess tournaments and coaching kids in the fundamentals of the game, doesn’t offer it, and he...
Iowa Health Insurance Exchange Price Info Delayed
Sep 10 2013 // Iowa’s insurance commissioner says he needs a commitment from a national insurer before he can release pricing information on policies to be sold on the state’s new health insurance exchange. The prices were...
Mississippi to Create Small Business Health Insurance Exchange
Sep 9 2013 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney plans to move ahead with a health insurance exchange for small businesses after federal officials approved regulations to allow the move. The Department of Health and Human...
Study Finds Big Disparities in What Insurers Pay Hospitals in Same Cities
Sep 6 2013 // Kansas City, Missouri, and Indianapolis residents with private health plans face some of the widest disparities in U.S. hospital costs, often being charged twice as much as nearby facilities, a study found. The...
South Dakota Ballot Measure Proposed on Health Insurance Restrictions
Sep 4 2013 // A proposed South Dakota ballot measure would prohibit insurance companies from restricting their customers’ choice of out-of-network health care providers. The proposed law, sponsored by three South Dakota doctors,...
South Texas Counties Among Highest Rates of Uninsured in Nation
Sep 3 2013 // Two South Texas counties have among the highest rates of people without health insurance in the nation, with working Hispanic men in South Texas the most likely to not have coverage, according to data released by the U.S....
RGEB Acquires Group Health Business of Archer Weiss in California
Sep 3 2013 // RGEB Employee Benefits has acquired the individual, Medicare and group health insurance business of Archer Weiss, a firm providing health insurance plans for clients in Southern California. The transaction will increase...
Wal-Mart Will Offer Health Insurance to U.S. Employees’ Domestic Partners
Aug 28 2013 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Tuesday it will offer health insurance benefits to domestic partners of its U.S. employees starting next year, following the lead of other major companies. The world’s largest retailer,...
Will Young Adults Sign Onto Obamacare?
Aug 23 2013 // If uninsured young Americans shun the new health plans offered under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law, it will be because the insurance costs too much and not because they don’t expect to need...
4 Companies Seek to Cover Uninsured Nebraskans
Aug 22 2013 // Four companies have declared their intentions to sell health insurance to Nebraskans who can’t get coverage from their employers. The companies are Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska; Coventry Health Care, of...
Republicans Question Privacy Protections with Health Insurance Navigators
Aug 21 2013 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has joined other Republicans lawmakers around the country in questioning privacy issues surrounding the navigators hired to walk people through their health insurance options under the Affordable...
Businesses Seek Cure for Health Care Cost Surge
Aug 16 2013 // A year ago, Teresa Hartnett was on the verge of expanding her small business. The company had hit $1 million in sales, and requests from clients were flowing in. She planned to transition from nearly 30 freelancers to a...
