Recent News & Comments About health insurance companies
Oklahoma House panel fails to advance insurance measure
The measure, Senate Bill 1059, was intended to allow insurance companies to offer standard health benefit plans, but critics said it would have allowed them to sell policies without providing required coverage.
State cuts temporary deals with 3 health insurance providers
The state is making temporary deals with three state employee health insurance providers until officials can determine which carriers should receive longer-term HMO contracts.
CHOICE Administrators’ CEO to Discuss “Private Exchanges in a Public Exchange World” at Annual Conference of the ...
The national movement toward health insurance exchanges and the role of “private exchanges in a public exchange world” will be the topic of a presentation by Ron Goldstein, preside
I'm Paying for What?! Mandated Health Insurance Benefits
The medical treatments and drugs that your health insurance company must pay for depend a lot on where you live.
Numbers Behind Catholic Health Care Lawsuits
Catholic organizations are taking their grievances over the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to the courts. At issue is the mandate that requires health insurance companies to make contraceptives available to women. The Obama administration and the Department of Health and Human Services refused to allow a religious exemption, according to The Week. The numbers behind the lawsuit bear out the ...
NZ private health insurance uptake hits 6-yr low
The number of kiwis taking out private healthcare insurance has fallen to the lowest level in more than six years, keeping the level of cover below the OECD average, as a weak economy and rising general insurance costs dent demand.Health...
The responsibility of the born
In my last article, I suggested the thought “What if the government treated health care (health insurance, in my words) the same as insurance companies treated auto insurance”?
Three Health Technology Companies To Watch
Last week, Towers Watson bought Extend Health, which allows retirees to choose from thousands of private Medicare plans according to their needs, instead of having their employer make the decision. Towers paid $435 million. One of the winners in that transaction was venture capital firm Psilos, which made in five years 10 times its investment in Extend Health?an unusual occurrence in health IT.
Putting the 'Insurance' Back in Health Insurance
We understand that it would make no sense to buy auto insurance after we’ve already crashed our car. We appreciate that it would be strange to buy homeowner’s insurance after our house has already burned down. And yet, when it comes to health coverage, many of us think that it makes perfect sense to wait until we’re sick to buy health insurance. If we really want to make health insurance ...
Controversial insurance bill dies in committee
A bill that opponents said would have allowed insurance companies to sell policies without providing required coverage for such procedures as mammograms appears dead this year.
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