Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Minnesota Gov. Cranks Up Pressure on Feds to Protect Health Programs
Sep 22 2017 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton blasted federal health officials on Sept. 20 for holding up approval of a program meant to lower health insurance costs and threatening millions of dollars in cuts to health care for the working...
California Workers’ Comp Division Suspends 6 Medical Providers for Fraud
Sep 22 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended six more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of suspended providers to...
Unlicensed Health Insurance Companies Targeting Delaware Seniors
Sep 21 2017 // Senior citizens are being warned to be on the lookout for unlicensed health insurance companies in Delaware. The companies have been marketing and selling plans to residents of long-term care and nursing home facilities in...
Insurers Oppose Latest Republican Obamacare Repeal Effort
Sep 21 2017 // Insurance-industry groups said Wednesday that they oppose a Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, joining health-care providers in asking Senators to reject the bill. America’s Health...
Percent of Indiana Residents Without Health Insurance Declines
Sep 19 2017 // A U.S. Census Bureau report has found that Indiana had 373,000 fewer people without health insurance last year than three years earlier. The report released last week said about 8 percent of Indiana residents, or about...
Hey Congress, Hurricanes and Health Care Have a Lot in Common: Bloomberg View
Sep 18 2017 // As Congress continues to struggle with health insurance reform, members should be ruminating on the scenes of “recovery” beaming in from East Texas and Florida, where the majority of households — many now...
Number Drops but Texas Still Has Highest Rate for People Without Health Insurance
Sep 13 2017 // The number of people without health insurance in Texas continues to decline, but the state still has more residents without coverage than anywhere in the nation. U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday shows Texas’...
Trump Cuts to Affordable Care Act’s Advertising Concern Law’s Supporters
Sep 6 2017 // The Trump administration’s plan to slash spending on getting people to sign up for Obamacare will further undermine the law’s already fragile health insurance markets, according to health experts, insurers and...
Abuse of Nursing Home Residents Often Goes Unreported
Aug 29 2017 // More than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police, says a government audit that faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law requiring...
Pennsylvania Commissioner Miller: Individual Market Instability Will Raise Costs
Aug 21 2017 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller issued a letter to federal Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price detailing the urgent need for stability in the individual health insurance market as...
Health Insurers Will Get August Obamacare Payments Trump Threatened to End
Aug 20 2017 // The government will make this month’s payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law that President Donald Trump still wants to repeal and replace, a White House official said Wednesday. Trump has...
Penn. Commissioner Miller: Individual Market Instability Will Raise Costs
Aug 15 2017 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller issued a letter to federal Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price detailing the urgent need for stability in the individual health insurance market as...
Anthem to Exit Obamacare Plans in Virginia as Legislative Uncertainties Continue
Aug 14 2017 // U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc. said on Friday [Aug. 11] it will exit Obamacare markets in Virginia and reduce its plan offerings in Washington and Scott counties and the city of Bristol next year. The move comes nearly...
How Big Data Threatens Health Insurance: Viewpoint
Aug 8 2017 // For all its absurdity, the debate over Obamacare has accomplished something positive: It has educated people that insurance is really about risk pooling — as in you need both healthy and sick people to participate if...
Future of Job-Based Health Insurance Seems Secure
Aug 7 2017 // Are employees worried about losing their health insurance from their employer? The ongoing political turmoil around “Obamacare” all but guarantees they’ll still be able to do that. Ask Walt Rowen, whose...
5 Companies Agree to Fill Gaps in Ohio’s Individual Health Insurance Market
Aug 7 2017 // Five health insurance companies in Ohio, including Molina Healthcare Inc., have stepped up to sell health plans in 19 counties that would have been without Obamacare individual coverage in 2018, the state’s insurance...
Senators Weigh Bipartisan Effort to Save Health Insurer Subsidies
Aug 4 2017 // A bipartisan Senate effort to continue federal payments to insurers and avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets faces a dicey future. The uncertainty shows that last week’s wreck of the Republican drive...
Health Insurers to Fill Gaps in Ohio’s Individual Coverage Market
Jul 31 2017 // Five health insurance companies in Ohio, including Molina Healthcare Inc., have stepped up to sell health plans in 19 counties that would have been without Obamacare individual coverage in 2018, the state’s insurance...
Insurers Await Trump Decision on Health Insurance Cost Subsidies
Jul 30 2017 // Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Sunday that “no decision’s been made” on whether to continue key Affordable Care Act subsidies to health-insurance companies, but that the...
Senate Begins Debate, Kills McConnell Health Bill, Schedules ‘Vote-a-Rama’
Jul 25 2017 // Senate Republicans have embarked on an unpredictable and potentially chaotic floor debate aimed at repealing Obamacare amid significant doubts that they can muster 50 votes to pass any kind of health bill. GOP leaders will...
