Core and Group Health

Guess that's what you get when you throw a bunch of insurance commissioners in a room and tell 'em to figure what Congress meant when they passed health care reform.

Seventy-one percent of carriers and employers insist health care reform is 'extremely positive' for the medical tourism industry. But obstacles remain.

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia will each receive $1 million to help improve health premium oversight, the Department of Health and Human Services announced this week.

Almost all (90 percent) of U.S. companies surveyed recently by Hewitt Associates say they anticipate losing their grandfathered health plan status by 2014, with the majority expecting to do so within the next two years.

Is the demise of group insurance imminent? Without significant changes in the health reform bill the evidence points to yes. But is that a bad thing?

estimates of the legislation understate the size of the population that might enroll in their parents' employment-based coverage, and the costs of the mandate are expected to increase health insurance premiums 1 percent by 2013.