Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
South Carolina Health Insurance Market Among Least Competitive: AMA
Dec 10 2012 // An American Medical Association analysis found that South Carolina has one of the country’s least competitive health insurance markets. The country’s leading lobby group for physicians said South Carolina has...
Small Business Owners Face Health Insurance Dilemma
Dec 6 2012 // Rose Wang looks at her staff of 70 employees and wonders if she’ll have to lay off some of them to comply with the health care law. The owner of Binary Group Inc., an information technology firm based in Alexandria,...
Study: North Dakota Health Insurance Market Near Monopoly
Dec 5 2012 // An American Medical Association study concludes that North Dakota’s health insurance market is almost a monopoly but the state’s dominant health insurer says consumers are not getting gouged. The study says a...
Colorado Moving To Curb Health Insurance Costs
Dec 5 2012 // Colorado officials say health care reform has given them the power to curb insurance rate hikes. Those curbs helped the state block a 24 percent increase request by Cigna. According to the Denver Post Cigna wanted to raise...
Cedar Falls, Iowa, Cuts Worker Hours to Avoid Health Insurance
Nov 29 2012 // Officials in Cedar Falls, Iowa, plan to reduce dozens of part-time public employees’ hours in order to avoid having to offer them insurance under a requirement of the federal health care overhaul set to take effect...
Lawmaker: Every Michigan Resident Should Get $500 from Health Insurer
Nov 26 2012 // A Republican state lawmaker says Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan should pay $500 for every Michigan resident as part of legislation that would convert the company from a charitable trust of the state to a customer-owned...
Obamacare Rules on Pre-Existing Conditions, Benefits, Wellness Released
Nov 21 2012 // The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed new health insurance rules aimed at ending discrimination against the sick and guaranteeing minimum benefits for millions of Americans who are expected to obtain coverage under...
Georgia Unlikely to Run Health Insurance Exchange: Gov. Deal
Nov 9 2012 // A day after Barack Obama’s re-election, Gov. Nathan Deal suggested that he will not implement a Georgia health insurance exchange as part of the 2010 federal health care overhaul that ranks as the president signature...
Louisiana Governor Asking for Vote on Health Insurance Outsourcing Plan
Nov 7 2012 // Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration is returning to lawmakers this week to ask for approval to outsource a state employee health insurance plan. Jindal’s top budget adviser shelved a vote recently when it became...
State Elections to Decide Insurance Commissioner, Ballot Initiatives, Court Contests
Nov 5 2012 // For the insurance industry, there is more at stake in the Nov. 6 election than who goes to or stays in the White House and Congress. The insurance industry will be watching who wins the gubernatorial races in 11 states,...
Insurance Agents and the 2012 Election: Interview with Big I CEO Rusbuldt
Nov 2 2012 // Bob Rusbuldt When it comes to the 2012 presidential election, insurance agents have, as industry insiders like to say, “skin in the game.” In addition to being concerned with how the overall economy will...
Health Insurers Nervous Over Prospect of Romney Victory
Oct 30 2012 // You’d think health insurance CEOs would be chilling the bubbly with Republican Mitt Romney’s improved election prospects, but instead they’re in a quandary. Although the industry hates parts of President...
Cypress Benefit Administrators Adds Captive Health Insurance for Employers
Oct 24 2012 // Cypress Benefit Administrators, a national third party administrator (TPA) based in Appleton, Wisc., and with locations in Portland, Ore., Omaha, Neb. and Pueblo, Colo., has launched CypressCap group captive insurance...
Pennsylvania’s Health Insurance Exchange Plan Stalls
Oct 19 2012 // A state-run health insurance exchange is unlikely to be ready for a scheduled January 2014 rollout, Pennsylvania’s top insurance regulator said Wednesday. Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine said development of...
Big Brazil Health Insurance Deal May be Tough to Replicate
Oct 9 2012 // With a $4.9 billion takeover of Brazil’s biggest healthcare provider, UnitedHealth Group appears to have snatched the crown jewel in a market with plenty of promise but formidable barriers to entry for any foreign...
Poll: Americans Do Not Expect Total Repeal of Health Care Law
Oct 8 2012 // They may not like it, but they don’t see it going away. About 7 in 10 Americans think President Barack Obama’s health care law will go fully into effect with some changes, ranging from minor to major...
Challenges, Opportunities of Health Exchanges, New Insureds
Oct 2 2012 // The 12 million Americans expected to begin enrollment in health insurance exchanges next year represent a customer base of new insureds with a demographic profile and health needs that differ from those of the current...
South Dakota Will Not Run its Own Health Insurance Exchange
Sep 28 2012 // South Dakota will not set up its own health insurance exchange, instead deferring to the federal government to operate and pay for a key component required by the federal health care overhaul, Gov. Dennis Daugaard...
Americans Do Not Expect Total Repeal of Health Care Law: Poll
Sep 27 2012 // They may not like it, but they don’t see it going away. About 7 in 10 Americans think President Barack Obama’s health care law will go fully into effect with some changes, ranging from minor to major...
Employers Weighing Exchanges for Individual Retiree Health Plans: Aon
Sep 26 2012 // Most employers are reevaluating their retiree health care strategy and are considering strategies that open access to the individual Medicare plan market through health care exchanges, according to a new survey by Aon...
