Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
VP Biden Offers State Insurance Regulators Ground Rules for Healthcare
Sep 24 2009 // Vice President Joe Biden told state insurance regulators this week that “soaring” health care premiums are hurting families and businesses, which he said underscores the need for a healthcare...
White House Targets Insurers for Health Insurance Premiums
Sep 22 2009 // The White House kept insurance companies squarely in its sights Tuesday in the push for healthcare reform by releasing research showing that health insurance premiums have risen far faster than inflation in every U.S....
Healthy Feedback
Sep 21 2009 // An Iowa professor thinks using the term “health insurance” to describe typical health care policies is a bit of a misnomer because it’s become more of a cash management tool than insurance. According to...
Healthy Feedback
Sep 21 2009 // An Iowa professor thinks using the term “health insurance” to describe typical health care policies is a bit of a misnomer because it’s become more of a cash management tool than insurance. According to...
Declarations
Sep 21 2009 // Not Wasting Time “I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it.” —President Barack Obama, in a Sept. 9 speech before...
Leahy Bill Repeals Antitrust Exemption for Malpractice, Health Insurance Companies
Sep 18 2009 // Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. has introduced legislation to eliminate a federal antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies. As the Senate prepares to...
South Carolina Court Awards $10 Million to Man Cut by Health Insurer
Sep 16 2009 // The South Carolina Supreme Court this week upheld a multimillion verdict against an insurer the justices said revoked a man’s health policy after he tested positive for HIV based solely on a nurse writing down the...
Aetna CEO Says Public Option Lacks Necessary Poltical Support
Sep 16 2009 // Support is lacking, particularly in the U.S. Senate, for a government-run health plan that would compete in the private marketplace, the chief executive of health insurer Aetna Inc said Tuesday. Democrats as well as...
Senate Panel’s 10-Year, $856 Billion Healthcare Plan Excludes Public Option
Sep 16 2009 // Senator Max Baucus unveiled his plan for a 10-year, $856 billion healthcare overhaul Wednesday that would revamp insurance rules but does not include a government-run option backed by liberal Democrats. Baucus, the...
Text: Sen. Baucus Introduces to Senate Financial Committee Health Bill
Sep 16 2009 // The following announcment was released by the office of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.). Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.) today introduced the America’s Healthy Future...
Text: Senate Finance Committee’s America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009
Sep 16 2009 // Chairman’s Mark America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 Scheduled for Markup By the Senate Committee on Finance On September 22, 2009 America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 TITLE I—HEALTH CARE...
Missouri to Study Timeliness of Health Insurers’ Reimbursements
Sep 14 2009 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has ordered the state Department of Insurance to determine whether health insurance companies in Missouri are withholding reimbursement payments to health care providers for unreasonable lengths of...
Health Insurance Isn’t Really Insurance, Researcher Says
Sep 11 2009 // Lost in the debate over a public option health insurance plan, says a University of Iowa insurance expert, is the fact that health insurance differs in many ways from other types of insurance. “Insurance manages...
Health Insurer Under Fire From North Dakota Insurance Department
Sep 10 2009 // An audit by the North Dakota Department of Insurance found that Noridian Mutual Insurance Company, doing business as Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota (BCBS), racked up tens of thousands of dollars in excessive...
Senate Health Proposal Includes Insurer Tax, Co-ops; Excludes Public Option
Sep 9 2009 // Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has circulated a healthcare reform proposal he hopes will win support from both Democrats and Republicans. The proposal is based on weeks of intense negotiations by a bipartisan...
Alabama Uncertain If Small Business Tax Break Is Boosting Health Insurance
Sep 8 2009 // Craig Bacheler is able to offer the employees at his small Alabama IT firm health benefits because of a new state law, but some who helped push for the law say it is too early to measure its benefits. Small companies,...
Private Health Insurance Competition Weak in Many U.S. Markets
Aug 24 2009 // One of the most widely accepted arguments against a government medical plan for the middle class is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the...
Family Health Insurance Premiums Seen Rising 94% by 2020
Aug 20 2009 // Nationally, family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance increased 119 percent between 1999 and 2008, and could increase another 94 percent to an average $23,842 per family by 2020 if cost growth continues on...
Consumer Opinions of Car Makers, Brokerages, Banks, Health Insurers Fall
Aug 18 2009 // Unsurprisingly, the industries whose reputations have been most badly hurt in the last 12 months are car manufacturers (down 31 points), banks (down 24 points), and investment and brokerage firms (down 27 points),...
Insurers in Crosshairs of U.S. Health Care Reformers
Aug 11 2009 // The debate over reforming the U.S. health care system has zeroed in on one main target: insurance companies. Democrats and the Obama administration plan to spend August battling to win popular support to expand health care...
