Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Obamacare and Agency Value
Dec 2 2013 // Where is the Affordable Care Act headed? Are we prepared? Who will be covered and who won’t? Are we robbing from Peter to pay Paul? The list of questions is endless. The answers are few and far between. In a speech...
Connecticut to Forgo Obama’s Plan for Canceled Health Insurance Policies
Nov 25 2013 // The state of Connecticut will not abide by President Barack Obama’s request that states allow insurance companies to continue offering health plans that don’t meet minimum coverage levels to people who have...
States, Insurers Working on Ways to Bypass Obamacare Federal Exchange
Nov 21 2013 // States and insurers are already working to bail out President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul, anticipating the system’s online insurance exchanges may not be ready by a critical December deadline. All of...
Many State Insurance Regulators Uncertain About Obama’s Fix to Health Insurance Promise
Nov 17 2013 // Many U.S. states are hesitant to embrace President Barack Obama’s fix to keep Americans from losing health insurance plans that do not comply with his healthcare reform, saying they need to figure out how to...
Vermont Warns People of Health Insurance Phone Scams
Nov 15 2013 // The state of Vermont is warning people to beware of phone scams from callers claiming to be selling health insurance in order to obtain personal information. Department of Financial Regulation Commissioner Susan L. Donegan...
White House Willing to Consider Fix to Stop Health Policy Cancellations
Nov 13 2013 // The Obama administration today indicated it was willing to consider Democratic legislation to halt some of the hundreds of thousands of health insurance policy cancellations that have raised alarm among voters and...
Low Obamacare Enrollment Figures Add to Pressure on White House
Nov 13 2013 // About 106,000 people signed up for insurance coverage nationally under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law during October, the government said on Wednesday, a tiny fraction of the millions of people that had been...
Pittsburgh Bishop: Won’t Let Health Insurer Give Disputed Coverage
Nov 13 2013 // The Roman Catholic bishop of Pittsburgh says that he will refuse to sign a document allowing a third-party insurer to provide preventative reproductive services for employees of a diocese-related charity even if it means...
Massachusetts Health Insurer Lays Off 62 Workers
Nov 11 2013 // A Worcester, Mass.-based health insurance provider has announced that it is laying off 62 workers, or about 6 percent of its total workforce. Fallon Community Health Plan President and Chief Executive Patrick Hughes said...
U.S. Sen. Toomey Cites Pennsylvania Residents Losing Health Insurance
Nov 8 2013 // U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said thousands of Pennsylvanians are contacting his office with complaints about losing their health insurance because of the federal overhaul, while state insurance regulators put the number of people...
280,000 Kentuckians to Give Up Their Current Health Insurance Policies
Nov 4 2013 // About 280,000 Kentuckians will have to give up their current insurance policies in the months ahead and enroll in alternatives that comply with the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care reform law. Kentucky...
N.Y. Expects 100,000 to Change Health Insurance Under Federal Overhaul
Nov 4 2013 // New York health officials say that about 100,000 individuals will have to change their health insurance under the federal health care overhaul. According to the state Health Department, those changes are required where...
Obama Administration Under Fire for Individual Health Policy Cancellations
Oct 30 2013 // President Barack Obama’s advisers deliberately crafted his signature healthcare law to fulfill his oft-repeated promise: those who like their insurance can keep it. Even with that provision, Obama administration...
Illinois Insurance Brokers Frustrated with Health Care Law
Oct 25 2013 // Insurance brokers in Illinois vented their frustrations recently with the troubled rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care law and the crippled federal website, HealthCare.gov. Dozens attended a meeting with...
137,800 in Mississippi Fall in Health Insurance ‘Coverage Gap’
Oct 21 2013 // A new study shows 137,800 low-income Mississippians fall into a health insurance “coverage gap.” They’re currently uninsured. They earn too much to enroll in Medicaid but too little to qualify for...
Confusion Still Major Hurdle in Florida for New Health Care Law
Oct 21 2013 // As federal health officials work around the clock to fix technology glitches plaguing the website where U.S. citizens can obtain health insurance under the new federal law, many Floridians still have little understanding...
Study: Michigan Auto Costs Can Drop if Lifetime Care Stays
Oct 16 2013 // Michigan can lower auto insurance premiums without making major changes to the state’s no-fault system proposed in legislation that has stalled for months, according to a nonpartisan report issued Oct. 14. The...
State Regulators Warn on Misleading Health Insurance Websites
Oct 15 2013 // Insurance regulators and an industry trade group are warning that this month’s roll-out of the health insurance marketplaces created by federal law opened the door for bad actors at the same time that it has given...
Analysis: Health Insurance Prices for 3 Illinois Households
Oct 10 2013 // How much will an Illinois fast food cook pay for insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law? How about a preschool teacher? Or a freelance writer? Price information has been difficult to come by because...
Health Insurance Contractor to Add 477 Jobs in Lawton, Oklahoma
Oct 7 2013 // A federal contractor said it will hire nearly 500 people in Lawton, Okla., to help support the new health insurance exchanges created under the federal health care law. Serco North America announced that it will lease a...
