Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
House Republicans Plan Own Healthcare Reform Bill
Nov 3 2009 // Republicans in the House plan to offer an alternative to Democrats’ massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House Republican leader said...
House Health Bill Boosts FTC Authority Over Health Insurers
Nov 2 2009 // Health care legislation headed for a vote in the House would give the Federal Trade Commission authority to look into the health insurance industry at its own initiative, Democratic officials said. The FTC, which...
House Healthcare Overhaul Unveiled
Oct 30 2009 // Democrats in the House unveiled a sweeping healthcare overhaul Thursday that would transform the insurance market, create a government-run insurance plan and levy new taxes on the rich. Weeks of closed-door negotiations to...
Ohio Gov. Would not Want to Refuse Health Insurance Public Option
Oct 29 2009 // A spokeswoman for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said the governor would not want Ohio to opt out of any new government-run health insurance program. A health care proposal offered by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would...
U.S. Senate Healthcare Bill to Include Public Option with State Opt-Out
Oct 27 2009 // Democratic leader Harry Reid said Monday the U.S. Senate’s healthcare overhaul will include a government-run insurance plan that lets states opt out, handing liberals an early victory on the bill’s most...
Experts Say Antitrust Repeal Unlikely to Spur Health Insurance Competition
Oct 26 2009 // Democratic lawmakers are seeking to stir up competition by stripping health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws, although experts shrug off the effort as largely symbolic. Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
California Commissioner Warns Seniors About Agents
Oct 23 2009 // California’s Insurance Commissioner is worried that crooked health insurance agents may target seniors during open enrollment for Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Program. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner...
UAE Health Insurer Daman and Munich Re Extend Strategic Partnership
Oct 22 2009 // The United Arab Emirates National Health Insurance Company, Daman, and Munich Re have extended their strategic alliance and partnership. The bulletin noted that the “initial five-year agreement between both firms was...
Healthcare Battle Turns to Antitrust Law for Malpractice, Health Insurers
Oct 22 2009 // Democrats in Congress moved Wednesday to repeal the health insurance industry’s exemption from antitrust laws, cranking up the pressure in a growing battle over President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform...
Republicans Seek to Add Malpractice, Kill Individual Mandate in Health Bill
Oct 20 2009 // Republicans will seek amendments to parts of the Democrat’s healthcare reform they oppose, rather than push for an alternative plan to overhaul the $2.5 trillion system, a key senator said Monday. Conservatives are...
Idaho To Take Health Insurance from Part-Timers
Oct 16 2009 // The Department of Administration’s plan to make Idaho state government part-time employees pay more for health insurance will save the state some $2.73 million annually. Part-time workers are unhappy with...
Calif. Lawmaker Won’t Cede Health Insurance Rescissions Fight
Oct 15 2009 // A California assemblyman said Tuesday he’ll try a third time to get strict measures on when health insurance companies can cancel policies approved into law. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday vetoed a bill backed...
Pennsylvania AG Sues Texas Firm Over Lost Health Insurance
Oct 15 2009 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general has sued a Texas company that allegedly stopped paying employees’ health insurance premiums for five months before its insurer retroactively canceled coverage, leaving some...
Obama Official Questions Need for Insurance Antitrust Exemption
Oct 15 2009 // There are “strong indications” that the justifications for the insurance industry’s limited antitrust exemption that existed in 1945, when McCarran-Ferguson was enacted, are no longer valid, an Obama...
White House Blasts Health Insurers’ Report on Costs of Reform Bill
Oct 13 2009 // The White House Monday blasted a report from the health insurance industry that said Senate healthcare legislation would lead to increases in annual insurance premiums of as much as $4,000 by 2019. The report for the...
Healthcare Quality Varies Widely By State, Study Finds
Oct 8 2009 // The quality of healthcare Americans receive depends largely on where they live, with insurance coverage, access to preventive medicine and disease treatment varying widely from state to state, according to a study released...
Healthy Feedback
Oct 5 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
Oct 5 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
Oct 5 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...
Small Business to Congress: Fix Health Insurance Now!
Oct 2 2009 // Whether they’re young or old, entrepreneurs always have a hunger to come up with the next big idea, or to do something better than anyone else. That’s the spirit that lives in each and every small business...
