Health Insurers Raise Some Rates by Double Digits
Particularly vulnerable to the high rates are small businesses and people who do not have employer-provided insurance and must buy it on their own. In California, Aetna is proposing rate increases of...
View ArticleHealth insurers launch TV war over Medicare Advantage cuts
WASHINGTON | Wed Mar 6, 2013 1:35pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The health insurance industry is escalating its lobbying battle against a proposed Medicare Advantage pay cut to insurers by launching a...
View ArticleIdaho health insurers pile up surpluses
Idaho’s two major health insurance companies are using money from double-digit rate increases to build savings and investment accounts that now top $600 million. Similarly rising stockpiles among...
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Most individual health insurance isn’t good enough for Obamacare
If you buy your own health insurance now, you’ll be in for a big change when you sign up for coverage in 2014. Just over half of the individual plans currently on the market do not meet the standards...
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Bill Allows Refusal Of Health Care On Moral Basis
By David Eggert, Associated Press LANSING (AP) - For 35 years, Michigan law has protected health care providers who refuse to perform an abortion on moral or religious grounds. Hospitals and clinics...
View ArticleBeware of Hysteria Over New Health-Insurance Rates
Last month, Maryland made public the premiums that health insurers want to charge next year under the Affordable Care Act, one of the first states to do so. Premiums for non-employer health-insurance...
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Employers Test Plans That Cap Health Costs
Although it is in the early stages, the strategy is gaining in popularity and there is some evidence that it has persuaded expensive hospitals to lower their prices. In California, a large plan for...
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Speaking Out for Health Care Act, Obama Says Millions Will Get Rebates
WASHINGTON — President Obama, slipping back into his episodic role as a vigorous campaigner for his new health care act, said Thursday that thanks to the law, more than 8.5 million Americans are...
View ArticleMany Health Insurers to Limit Choices of Doctors, Hospitals
Answers allows you to tap the knowledge of Community members. Answer a question below or ask a question. JAIRO PUENTES asks… Q: What is the best way to cut Medicare and Medicaid costs and provide...
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Say Hi To Oscar: The New Kid That May Change Health Insurance
By Nicole Fisher and Scott Liebman Josh Kushner (David Yellen for FORBES) In five weeks from now, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates the opening of health insurance exchanges...
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