Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Opts Out of Temporary Health Insurance High Risk Pool
Apr 13 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said that he will not participate in the first phase of recently enacted federal health care legislation that calls for the implementation of a temporary high risk insurance...
How Microinsurance Plans Extend Healthcare in Africa
Apr 12 2010 // Kenyan student Shadrack Silipo had a heart operation five years ago, the sort of surgery that often bankrupts families in Africa. Silipo’s parents normally would have paid by selling off land, the same green acres...
The Life of a Health Insurance Broker – Post Health Reform
Apr 5 2010 // The last couple of years have been challenging for the national economy – the housing market decline, bank bailouts, tightening credit markets, and a volatile stock market have strained many businesses across varying...
Tennessee Regulators Move to Close ATA Health Insurance Firm
Mar 30 2010 // Tennessee officials are trying to shut down operations of two Robertson County companies accused of defrauding more than 12,000 consumers nationwide who sought affordable health insurance. Some of the $14 million that...
Key Features of Healthcare Reform Passed By House
Mar 22 2010 // The U.S. House of Representatives approved a sweeping $940 billion healthcare overhaul Sunday in a two-step process that sends a Senate version of the bill to President Barack Obama for his signature and a package of...
Insurance Agents, U.S. Chamber Unhappy with Healthcare Reform
Mar 22 2010 // Independent insurance agents are among those today expressing their disappointment with the health care reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The House approved the Senate-passed bill and also approved a...
Illinois Outlines Expected Changes Resulting from Health Insurance Reform
Mar 22 2010 // The Illinois Department of Insurance has developed a “Top Ten” list of changes to the performance, transparency and accountability of health insurers and health insurance products in Illinois expected to result...
Number of Californians Without Health Insurance Soars
Mar 17 2010 // Nearly one in four Californians under age 65 lacked health insurance during all or part of last year, well above the latest national average, in a trend fueled by shrinking coverage due to mounting job layoffs, a new study...
Obama Health Secretary Keeps Pressure on Health Insurers
Mar 11 2010 // Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ratcheted up the pressure on health insurance companies Wednesday, urging them to forgo short-term profits to make coverage more affordable and to stop fighting the...
Letter from Iowa Governor Prompts Wellmark to Delay Rate Hike
Mar 10 2010 // Iowa’s largest health insurance provider will delay a planned premium increase after Gov. Chet Culver raised questions about the higher rates to the state insurance commissioner. Culver sent a letter to Insurance...
North Carolina Insurance Department Helps Consumers Recover $9 Million
Mar 9 2010 // Consumers in North Carolina were able to recover more than $9 million from insurance companies in 2009 with the assistance of the state insurance department. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said the recovery came from...
U.S. Seeks Reimbursements from $300 Million PCB Settlement in Alabama
Mar 3 2010 // The federal government is seeking Medicare reimbursements from lawyers, manufacturers and insurers that were involved in a $300 million settlement over widespread PCB contamination in the east Alabama city of Anniston. A...
Kansas Insurance Chief Opposed to Interstate Health Insurance Options
Mar 2 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has joined colleagues from two other states in opposing interstate health insurance options. Praeger, along with state insurance commissioners from Oklahoma and West Virginia,...
Medicare Takes Action Against Insurance Company
Mar 2 2010 // An insurance company operating in Hawaii and 20 other states has been ordered to stop marketing and enrollment of new members to its Medicare Part D prescription drug plan. The order affecting Fox Insurance Co. of New York...
Nebraska Uninsured Rates Highest Among Minorities
Feb 26 2010 // High percentages of minorities, foreign-born residents and college-aged people in Nebraska lack health insurance, according to new report. The Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha...
Federal Rate Regulation Threatens Solvency, Health Insurers Warn
Feb 24 2010 // President Obama’s latest push for a health care overhaul could drive health plans around the country into insolvency, according to an insurance trade group. A plan released Monday by the White House would give the...
U.S. House Passes Repeal of Health Insurers’ Antitrust Exemption
Feb 24 2010 // The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to take a 65-year-old antitrust exemption away from health insurance companies, leaning hard on an industry that has been the focus of criticism for fast-rising rates. The...
Obama Backs Repeal of Health Insurers’ Antitrust Exemption
Feb 23 2010 // The Obama administration on Tuesday threw its weight behind a bid to repeal an anti-trust exemption protecting health insurers, keeping the industry in its crosshairs as it prepares to host a bipartisan summit on revamping...
Obama Offers New Plan to Revive Health Care Push
Feb 22 2010 // President Barack Obama tried to rejuvenate his stalled U.S. health care overhaul Monday with a revised plan to make insurance coverage more affordable and bolster federal authority to regulate premium hikes. The proposal...
Winners, Losers in Obama Health Proposal
Feb 22 2010 // Health insurers, makers of brand-name drugs and generic drugmakers are among the industry players who see further pressure in President Barack Obama’s health care proposal released Monday. The White House plans to...
