Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Medical Malpractice Excluded from Health Insurers’ Antitrust Legislation
Feb 22 2010 // Free-standing legislation introduced by Reps. Betsy Markey of Colorado and Thomas Perriello of Virginia to amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act for health insurers no longer includes text to remove the limited antitrust...
Oregon Makes Health Insurance Rate Filings Public
Feb 18 2010 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division has finalized changes to its health insurance rate review process that make all information submitted as part of an insurance company’s...
Democrats Seize on Wellpoint’s 39% Rate Hike to Renew Reform Effort
Feb 12 2010 // Health insurer WellPoint Inc. defended its rate hike of up to 39 percent for certain California customers as Democrats latched onto the increase to press their case for overhauling the U.S. healthcare system. The...
What Republicans Are Proposing for Healthcare Reform
Feb 11 2010 // President Barack Obama has asked Republicans to bring their best ideas on healthcare reform to a televised bipartisan meeting later this month that Democrats hope will help restart the stalled healthcare overhaul...
California Regulator Wants Anthem Blue Cross To Postpone Rate Increase
Feb 10 2010 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, responding to a dramatic proposed rate hike by WellPoint’s California affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross, has called on WellPoint executives to postpone the rate increase,...
House to Vote on Repeal of Health Insurers’ Antitrust Exemption
Feb 3 2010 // The U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week on repealing the antitrust exemption for health insurers, but Democrats remained uncertain Tuesday on how to proceed on a broader healthcare overhaul. Senate Democratic...
Obama’s Budget Shows Only Modest Changes in Health Reforms
Feb 2 2010 // The Obama administration’s latest spending plan calls for modest changes to the U.S. health care system but does little to incorporate sweeping moves called for Democrats’ larger plan to increase access and...
White House Budget Takes Small Steps on Health Care Reform
Feb 1 2010 // With plans to pass sweeping health care reform stalled in Congress, the White House is targeting smaller efforts to improve the nation’s health care system, such as increasing use of cheaper, generic medicines and...
Health Insurers Seek Tax, Profit Changes in Health Reform Bill
Jan 8 2010 // Health insurance lobbyists are pushing lawmakers to eliminate caps on profits and other administrative spending and delay a hefty, industry-wide tax under the massive healthcare reform legislation being finalized in...
Illinois Governor Signs Consumer Health Claims Review Bill
Jan 6 2010 // Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed a bill into law that ensures that all denied health insurance claims can be reviewed and decided upon by a qualified, independent doctor. The law goes into effect July 1. Under...
Key Differences in Senate, House Health Bills
Jan 6 2010 // Democrats in the U.S. Congress are preparing to merge the two health care bills passed in 2009 by the Senate and House of Representatives into a single bill. This compromise bill would have to be passed by both chambers of...
Oregon Announces Insurance Aid for Laid Off Workers
Dec 24 2009 // Oregonians who have been laid off from their jobs can continue to receive help paying for health insurance into 2010. The Insurance Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services is adopting emergency rules...
