Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Health Insurance Subsidy Could Bring Tax Sting
Apr 4 2013 // Millions of people who take advantage of government subsidies to help buy health insurance next year could get stung by surprise tax bills if they don’t accurately project their income. President Barack Obama’s...
More than 500 to Guide Arkansas Residents on Health Insurance Options
Mar 26 2013 // Come summer, at least 535 trained guides will start fanning out across Arkansas, knocking on doors, setting up folding chairs in community centers and handing out brochures to spread the word across Arkansas about the...
Christian Health Insurer, Pension Liability Top Kentucky Legislature’s Closing Days
Mar 25 2013 // Lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday with two days remaining to pass legislation intended to shore up Kentucky’s pension plans for state and local government retirees. Restoring solvency to the pension system,...
Lobbyists Keep Battling As Obamacare Turns 3
Mar 25 2013 // Eight months before President Barack Obama’s health care law goes prime time, a confederation of industry and business groups is ramping up its lobbying apparatus for an 11th-hour assault on the web of new taxes and...
Health Cost Savings Innovations Need Time: Obama Official
Mar 21 2013 // The Obama administration on Wednesday said its experiments at controlling healthcare costs could need up to a year to produce results, frustrating congressional lawmakers eager to know if new innovations in care delivery...
Feds Would Set Florida Health Insurance Rates Under Senate Bill
Mar 21 2013 // A state Senate health committee recommended this week that the state suspend the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s power to set rates for insurers under the Affordable Care Act and instead let the federal...
Applying for Obama Health Care Plan Daunting Task
Mar 14 2013 // Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing taxes. The government’s draft application runs 15 pages for a three-person family. An outline of the...
Health Insurance Exchange Bill Clears New Mexico Senate
Mar 13 2013 // A proposal to establish a state-run health insurance exchange has passed the Senate with bipartisan support. A federal health care law calls for exchanges to serve as a marketplace for the uninsured to shop for medical...
Large Employers to Keep Health Insurance Benefit for Now: Survey
Mar 7 2013 // Most large employers don’t expect to send their full-time employees to government health exchanges for insurance during the next five years, but some retirees and part-time workers will end up there, a new survey has...
Minnesota House Passes Health Exchange Proposal
Mar 6 2013 // The Minnesota House passed a bill establishing the state’s health insurance exchange, the first step toward enactment of an online marketplace that aims to give more than a million Minnesotans a new place to purchase...
Bipartisan Optimism As Sweet As Maple Syrup at Workers’ Comp Conference
Feb 28 2013 // The political stalemate in Washington regarding the deficit and sequestration is not as dire or depressing as most people and pundits proclaim, and is in fact a positive sign that the country is grappling with important...
Rate Cap for Older Insureds to Mean Higher Health Insurance Costs for Younger
Feb 25 2013 // The Obama administration on Friday finalized new consumer safeguards for health insurance that impose tighter restrictions on what insurers can charge older customers, despite industry warnings that the young may be forced...
New Jersey Hospitals Pioneer Cost-Cutting Model
Feb 19 2013 // When a patient was moved from the intensive care unit to a regular hospital bed, it used to be routine for Dr. Anthony Granato to order 24 hours of heart monitoring, just in case. A few years ago, his thinking changed: If...
Feds Approve Illinois Health Exchange with Conditions
Feb 18 2013 // Illinois has received conditional federal approval for its plan to help run an online marketplace where thousands of state residents will shop for health insurance beginning Oct. 1 – a big step toward carrying out...
Geography To Play Larger Role In California Health Premiums
Feb 17 2013 // Whether it’s the densely populated Southern California coast or the mountains of rural Northern California, geography is going to play a larger role in the cost of health insurance under the federal health care...
Obama Administration Says Health Insurance Exchanges on Track
Feb 14 2013 // The Obama administration on Thursday assured U.S. lawmakers that it is on track to enroll millions of people in new state health insurance markets, but it quickly came under fire from Republicans and Democrats about how...
Emails Show Change in Oklahoma Health Exchange Policy
Feb 11 2013 // A 2011 decision by Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner to return a federal health care grant came just days after a prominent conservative encouraged state officials to reconsider their approach to President Barack...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Wants State-Run Health Exchange, Not Partnership
Feb 11 2013 // After blocking Mississippi’s proposal for a state-run health insurance exchange because of divisions among state leaders on the plan, federal officials said Friday that they’re encouraging the state to seek...
Florida’s Workers’ Comp Market Outlook Remains Positive
Feb 11 2013 // The outlook for Florida’s workers’ compensation market continues to be strong as a competitive market offers affordable rates, although costs could be reduced further if the state addressed prescription drug...
Florida Considers Partners for Health Insurance Exchange
Feb 6 2013 // Florida lawmakers heard this week from two organizations that could serve as partners in running an insurance exchange under the federal health overhaul. Florida has missed the deadline to run its own online marketplace...
