National Association of Health Underwriters

• NAHU looks at the co-ops

  By Allison Bell  |  March 13, 2012

  The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) has put out a commentary summarizing what it knows about the new Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program.

• Senate MLR bill aims to give agents some relief

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  February 6, 2012

  U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., have introduced S. 2068, the Access to Independent Health Insurance Advisors Act, a companion bill and a shot in the arm for a medical loss ratio bill in the...

• NAHU: Workers receive comprehensive benefits from employer

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  January 17, 2012

  A report released by the National Association of Health Underwriters demonstrates what those in the industry have already predicted: Americans depend on their employer for health insurance coverage.

• HHS rejects NAIC MLR request

  By Elizabeth Festa, Arthur D. Postal  |  December 2, 2011

  The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ request for an exemption from the medical loss ratio provisions of the healthcare reform law for insurance agents has been rejected.

• GAO notes commissions in individual market adding to expenses

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  December 1, 2011

  A GAO report released this week purports to demonstrate that early indicators show that the new medical loss ratio (MLR) standards mandated in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would have worked for most insurers in 2010.

• NAIC passes broker compensation resolution

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  November 23, 2011

  A deeply divided plenary body of the NAIC passed a contentious resolution backed by health insurers and agents but not consumer groups late Tuesday that urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to take “whatever immediate actions are available” to it to release agents and brokers from medical...

• Consumer Watchdog files health pate justification initiative in California

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  November 10, 2011

  Consumer Watchdog filed a ballot initiative in California to make health insurance companies open their books to forcing them to justify, under penalty of perjury, their proposed rate changes before they take effect.

• NAHU, run aground by high costs, uncertainty, awaits rescue by H.R. 1206

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  October 7, 2011

  The 100,000 health insurance producers who belong to the National Association of Health Underwriters are hoping allies will help rescue them from what they see as an increasingly desperate situation – but relief isn’t necessarily on the way any time soon.

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  Health groups launch mission to enroll uninsured

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  September 14, 2011

  Betting that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul withstands lawsuits and a Republican repeal drive, an unusual alliance of industry, health care and consumer groups is laying the groundwork to sign up uninsured Americans.

• Bad business or bad reform?

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  August 24, 2011

  So let’s bring up health care again: No matter how you look at it, some employers are dropping employee coverage, or they plan to, or fear it’s going to happen. And everyone involved is fearing it, too. But was reform legislation really the tipping point, or is it—and always has...