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By Kathryn Mayer |
May 14, 2012
I’ve just returned from the Benefits Selling Expo and my head still feels a bit cloudy. Besides a bit of sleep deprivation, I’ve got the word “cost” ringing in my ear.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
May 3, 2012
Though America spends more on health care than 12 other industrialized countries, the quality isn't better, a new study from The Commonwealth Fund finds.
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By Jenny Ivy |
April 26, 2012
According to a new report from The Kaiser Family Foundation, preliminary estimates project that insurers will have to return $1.3 billion to customers this year, including $426 million in the individual market, $377 million in the small group market, and $541 million in the large group market.
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By Jenny Ivy |
April 19, 2012
Analysis from The Commonwealth Fund finds that in 2011, 25 percent of adults ages 19 to 64 experienced a gap in their health insurance with a majority remaining uninsured for one year or more.
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By Jenny Ivy |
April 5, 2012
Insurance customers nationwide would have received roughly $2 billion in rebates from health insurers if the new medical loss ratio rules had been in effect in 2010.
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By Allison Bell |
April 4, 2012
If you're selling to consumers in Florida, Nevada or New York, they might need private long-term care insurance (LTCI) more than prospects living in Hawaii, Kansas or Connecticut.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
January 18, 2012
White House officials say President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is on track in many states — but they're preparing a federal backstop anyway.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
January 1, 2012
Annual premiums rose in every state from 2003-2010
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By Kathryn Mayer |
November 18, 2011
Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward their insurance increased by 63 percent as businesses required employees to contribute a greater share, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.
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By Marilynn Marchione |
November 14, 2011
Say you've had a heart attack and your insurer offered you free medicines to help prevent another one. Doctors did that in a major study and were stunned to find that only about half of patients took them.
