Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oklahoma Leaders Still Mulling Federal Health Care Law
Jul 9 2012 // More than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the sweeping federal health care law, Oklahoma’s political leaders have offered few specifics about how the state will proceed in complying with its...
Kansas Governor, Insurance Chief at Odds on Health Care
Jul 2 2012 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said he wants to wait until after the presidential election to comply with a key provision of the federal health care overhaul upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, but the state’s Republican...
‘One Way or Another’ Agencies See Growth in Group Health
Jul 2 2012 // “One way or another.” Is that the best way to describe a sound investment strategy nowadays? Yes. If you’re talking about the growing number of agencies investing in group health benefits...
Health Insurers to Pay $62M in Rebates in Illinois
Jul 2 2012 // The Obama administration announced that 300,000 Illinoisans will benefit from nearly $62 million in rebates from insurance companies because of the federal health law that critics have labeled “Obamacare.” The...
Consumer Watchdog Failure Could Help Auto Discount Initiative
Jun 29 2012 // Santa Monica, Calif.-based Consumer Watchdog’s proposed ballot measure to require health insurance companies to get approval before raising their rates narrowly missed qualifying for November’s ballot by...
Actuaries Say Individual Mandate Key to Viable Health Insurance Market
Jun 29 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to keep the Affordable Care Act largely intact is a step toward ensuring that health insurance markets attract a broad cross section of risk, a cornerstone to any viable health...
Corporate Winners, Losers Under Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling
Jun 29 2012 // Hospitals and insurers providing Medicaid plans for the poor emerged as the main corporate winners from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, while investors in...
Jones Praises Supreme Court, Calls for Health Rate Reviews
Jun 28 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones praised the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act – and he took the opportunity to state his support for health rate hike reviews...
A.M. Best on Court Ruling: No Effect on Most Health Insurers But Watching Small Insurers
Jun 28 2012 // Insurance rating organization A.M. Best Co. says the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will not have a ratings impact to the majority of health insurers. However, A.M. Best...
Excerpts from Supreme Court’s Healthcare Opinion
Jun 28 2012 // Some key excerpts from the majority opinion written in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius by Chief Justice John Roberts: The Framers gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it, and...
Reactions to Healthcare Ruling Coming In; What’s Yours?
Jun 28 2012 // Industry and other reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have been coming in. Readers are encouraged to offer their own reactions in Comments...
Supreme Court Upholds Healthcare Law; Read Copy of Opinion
Jun 28 2012 // The U.S Supreme Court today upheld the individual mandate that is the centerpiece of President Obama’s healthcare reform law. The court has upheld most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act but did find...
Today’s Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling: Possible Scenarios, Effects
Jun 28 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law, expected on Thursday, may have wide-ranging political and economic implications. Here is a look at possible scenarios for...
Checks Not Guaranteed for All Health Insurance Rebates, Experts Say
Jun 27 2012 // The check may not be in the mail. The Obama administration said in a report last week that 12.8 million people will benefit from health insurance rebates averaging $151 per household. But the number of families actually...
Mass. Officials OK Health Insurance Rebates
Jun 27 2012 // State officials say Massachusetts residents and small employers will benefit from $56.8 million in health insurance rebates. Insurance commissioner Joseph Murphy said on Tuesday that the rebates, from five of the...
Health Insurers to Pay $62M in Rebates in Illinois
Jun 22 2012 // The Obama administration has announced that 300,000 Illinoisans will benefit from nearly $62 million in rebates from insurance companies because of the federal health law that critics have labeled...
Health Insurers to Rebate $1.1 Billion
Jun 22 2012 // U.S. health insurance companies are due to pay out $1.1 billion in rebates to employers and individuals this summer, under a new industry regulation imposed by President Barack Obama’s health care law, the...
U.S. Settles Lawsuit Against Christus Spohn Health System Corp.
Jun 19 2012 // Federal prosecutors say a Texas-based hospital system has paid millions of dollars to settle a false claims lawsuit. Christus Spohn Health System Corp. has paid the United States more than $5 million to settle allegations...
Undoing Health Care Law Could Produce Ripple Effects
Jun 12 2012 // It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama’s health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers. But...
Health Insurer UnitedHealth Vows to Keep Reforms Whatever Court Decides
Jun 11 2012 // UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer by market value, said it would maintain the health coverage protections included in President Barack Obama’s healthcare law regardless of how the Supreme Court...
