Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Commissioners
Sep 25 2006 // Hawaii:Perfectly poised for insurers in the Pacific Rim Although it is undeniably one of the 50 United States, Hawaii’s location at the edge of the Pacific Rim yields creative business opportunities throughout the...
Steven M. Goldman, New Jersey, Commissioner of Banking and Insurance
Sep 25 2006 // Steven M. Goldman was sworn in as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance on March 20, 2006, after the Senate Judiciary Committee and full Senate unanimously approved his appointment. Prior to...
J.P. Schmidt, Hawaii, Insurance Commissioner
Sep 25 2006 // Although it is undeniably one of the 50 United States, Hawaii’s location at the edge of the Pacific Rim yields creative business opportunities throughout the world. The state’s captive insurer law already has...
Nationwide Health Insurance to Cut 350 Jobs in Ohio, Calif.
Sep 14 2006 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Health Plans, an affiliate of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. that provides health insurance in Ohio and California, will begin cutting about 350 jobs next year, a spokesman for the larger...
Millions of Young Adult Risk-Takers Uncovered
Sep 8 2006 // As Colorado’s snowboarding season approaches, so does the time of year when Katie Neal’s mom really freaks out. What bothers her mom, Neal said, is not the speed at which the 26-year-old slashes through...
Mass. Board Sets Lower Income Residents’ Health Insurance Fee
Sep 5 2006 // Lower income single adults will pay between $18 and $106 a month for health care under a plan approved by the board drafting regulations for the state’s new health care law. The Commonwealth Health Insurance...
Candidates for Ohio Governor Push Health Care Reforms
Sep 5 2006 // The two major candidates for governor want to embark Ohio on experiments that would expand health care coverage for the uninsured, including enrolling the poor in low-cost group purchasing plans. With an estimated 46.6...
James J. Donelon, Louisiana, Commissioner of Insurance
Sep 4 2006 // With his state still in recovery mode after last year’s Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon is arguably one of the busiest state insurance regulators in the U.S. While...
Mass. weighs health insurance minimum payments
Sep 4 2006 // Massachusetts officials are grappling to come up with how much lower-income residents should have to pay for insurance under the state’s landmark health care reform law that requires citizens to procure...
Census: New Mexicans Held onto Health Insurance in 2005
Aug 31 2006 // U.S. Census figures show the average percentage of New Mexicans without health insurance over the past three years has remained relatively unchanged, but state officials say the figures don’t take into account their...
Survey Says: Mass. Uninsured Population Down 19%
Aug 29 2006 // The number of Massachusetts residents without health insurance dropped 19 percent in the past two years, according to a survey released this week by the state’s Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. The survey,...
Neb. Approves High-Risk Health Pool Rate Change of 23.5 Percent
Aug 21 2006 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance announced recently that it has approved the recommendation of the Nebraska Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool (CHIP) Board of Directors to increase the high-risk pool rates by 23.5...
Oklahoma, Texas have most uninsured children
Aug 21 2006 // Arkansas led the nation in the reducing the number of uninsured children in that state between 1997 and 2004, but Texas and Oklahoma lagged behind the rest — ranking last and next to last, respectively, in the...
Wis. Governor Unveils Plan to Make Health Premiums Tax-deductible
Aug 18 2006 // Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled a plan this week to exempt all health insurance premiums from state taxes, a break that he said would save families who qualify hundreds of dollars per year. The governor said the plan...
Study Shows Decline in Number of N.D. Children Without Insurance
Aug 10 2006 // North Dakota has made progress in reducing the number of children without health insurance, a new report says. The state saw one of the biggest declines in the percentage of uninsured children since the start of the State...
N.J. Governor Vows to Unveil Health Insurance Plan in Sept.
Aug 9 2006 // New Jersey will consider adopting a program that “approaches universal health care” as it seeks to provide health insurance to small businesses and uninsured residents, the governor said recently. Gov. Jon S....
Maryland Seeks Answers for Uninsured After Wal-Mart Law Nixed
Aug 6 2006 // With Maryland’s groundbreaking Wal-Mart health care bill declared invalid by a federal judge, state officials are re-examining their options for providing medical care to many of the almost 800,000 people who have no...
Kan. Commissioner Warns Medicare Beneficiaries About New Scam
Jul 27 2006 // Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger wants Kansas seniors to know that the “$299 Ring” scam recently has escalated into a higher priced scam involving, in some cases, a new Medicare card, instead of a...
Minn. Blues Refunds Nonsmoking Policyholders Charged Smoker Rates
Jul 21 2006 // Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has announced a new policy to issue refunds to nonsmoking individual policyholders who, although eligible, have not been paying tobacco-free premium rates. “Blue Cross has done...
Californians Eligible, But Don’t Often Sign Up for Health Insurance
Jul 18 2006 // Approximately 43 percent of the reported 6.7 million California residents that qualify for government-sponsored health insurance aren’t signed up, according to statewide studies. Upon discovering this information,...
