Private Health Insurance
Best Top Latest news, and trends in private healthcare Insurance
Last Updated on: April 27th, 2012
Editor's Private Health Insurance picks
- newHow Obamacare Will Make Health Savings Accounts More Costly - Forbes
and damage the private insurance market through an adverse selection death spiral. “The guidance is a mixed bag,” says Ramthun. The HHS guidance does allow employers to include the contributions they make to health savings accounts or health ...
- 2 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 11:11am -
- newIs ObamaCare Helping Private Health Insurance Beneficiaries Get a Better Deal? - Reason.com
New estimates suggest that health insurers will pay out more than $1 billion in rebates this year due to a provision in the 2010 health care overhaul. A success for ObamaCare? Maybe not. The rebates don't account for premium increases we've ...
- 2 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 11:04am -
- newAfter Obamacare: More For The Supreme Court To Throw Out - Forbes
We need to get rid of the very notion that the federal government should direct or regulate private health insurance for working-age people. Whether Medicare or Medicaid are constitutional is surely a political step too far. But private insurance?
- 3 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 10:06am -
- newGov. should veto 2 bills restricting our health care - Arizona Daily Star
Jan Brewer would directly restrict Arizonans' ability to make private and personal medical decisions ... employer" and refuse to include contraception in their health-insurance plans. The "religiously affiliated" distinction is a step back ...
- 10 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 2:57am -
- newHealth care law rebates may top $1 billion - Daily Oklahoman
an expert on private health insurance. The nonpartisan foundation is an information clearinghouse on the nation's health care system, and its research is widely cited. The report comes with a caveat. It lacks data on the nation's most populous state ...
- 12 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 12:55am -
- newHealth insurers to pay $1.3 billion in rebates: study - Reuters
"While the health reform law as a whole continues to divide the American public, there are tangible changes taking place that benefit consumers," said Kaiser President Drew Altman. "Greater regulatory scrutiny of private insurance is improving ...
- 1 day ago, 26 Apr 12, 12:38pm -
- newThe need for a health plan backup - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Few affordable insurance options exist for adults outside of an employer-based benefit. But beginning in 2014, subsidized private health insurance offered through new state insurance exchanges will allow adults and their families to remain ...
- 1 day ago, 26 Apr 12, 4:31am -
- newGood Insurance is Hard to Find - WebMD
For that reason, I urge anyone without health insurance to learn about the public and private insurance options available within your state, which you can do by taking a five-question quiz at the Foundation for Health Coverage Education’s website.
- 2 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 7:56pm -
- newHealth care debate: high stakes for those with HIV - msnbc.com
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, only about 13 percent of people with HIV have private health insurance and about 24 percent have no coverage at all. As a group, HHS says, these people "have been particularly vulnerable to ...
- 2 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 2:19pm -
- newIs ObamaCare Helping Private Health Insurance Beneficiaries Get a Better Deal? - Reason Online (blog)
- newAfter Obamacare: More For The Supreme Court To Throw Out - Forbes
After Obamacare: More For The Supreme Court To Throw OutForbesWe need to get rid of the very notion that the federal government should direct or regulate private health insurance for working-age people. Whether Medicare or Medicaid are constitutional is surely a political step too far. But private insurance?and more »
- 3 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 10:13am -
- newA couple of options for VA health care - DesMoinesRegister.com
A couple of options for VA health careDesMoinesRegister.com100 million Americans. With an insurance card in their billfolds, veterans could receive care at any hospital the way seniors with Medicare cards do. The government would pay for the services in the private sector facility of the vet's choosing.and more »
- 3 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 9:48am -
- newLETTER — Huizenga's health-care solutions don't go far enough - HollandSentinel.com
- newGov. should veto 2 bills restricting our health care - Arizona Daily Star
Gov. should veto 2 bills restricting our health careArizona Daily StarJan Brewer would directly restrict Arizonans' ability to make private and personal medical decisions. Brewer should veto both. HB 2625 would allow organizations to declare themselves "a religiously affiliated employer" and refuse to include ...and more »
- 9 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 3:50am -
- newHealth-care fraudster to pay $1.3M - Philadelphia Inquirer
Health-care fraudster to pay $1.3MPhiladelphia InquirerA MONTGOMERY County man who bilked Medicare in an ambulance-transport scheme was sentenced Thursday to time served and ordered to repay the government health-insurance program for seniors more than $1.3 million. Boris Rostovsky, 44, formerly of Bryn ...and more »
- 10 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 3:03am -
- newReform equals rebates in Texas - San Antonio Express
Reform equals rebates in TexasSan Antonio ExpressBy David Hendricks Rebates totaling $1.3 billion from health insurance companies should go to more than 3 million individual policyholders and thousands of employers this year because of President Barack Obama's health care law, a report from the ...
- 11 hours ago, 27 Apr 12, 1:39am -
- newReport: Rebates from health care law will top $1B - Ocala
Report: Rebates from health care law will top $1BOcala"This is one of the most tangible benefits of the health reform law that consumers will have seen to date," said Larry Levitt, an expert on private insurance with the Kaiser Family Foundation, which analyzed industry filings with state health insurance ...
- 18 hours ago, 26 Apr 12, 6:40pm -
- newHealth care debate: high stakes for those with HIV - BusinessWeek
Health care debate: high stakes for those with HIVBusinessWeekAccording to the Department of Health and Human Services, only about 13 percent of people with HIV have private health insurance and about 24 percent have no coverage at all. As a group, HHS says, these people "have been particularly vulnerable to ...and more »
- 2 days ago, 26 Apr 12, 12:27am -
- newHealth care debate: high stakes for those with HIV - Huffington Post
