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The nation's third-largest health insurance company is the latest to leave the individual policy market in Indiana in another sign of diminishing competition to benefit consumers who purchase policies through a state insurance exchange under the federal health care overhaul.

The new federal budget deal resolution may not refer directly to private health insurance, but it could have major effects on the health market, an analyst says.

Towers Watson and Extend Health Inc., operator of the largest private Medicare exchange in the country, have formed a strategic alliance.

Lockton Benefit Group President Michael Brewer told lawmakers in Washington, D.C., more than 80 percent of employers are so committed to their employees that they plan to continue to offer group insurance, despite the uncertainty surrounding health care reform.

A new study by Mercer shows that employers are feeling the pinch as enrollment ticks up and compliance demands grow under health reform.

What these analysts ignore, however, are other factors that would significantly increase the true costs of terminating coverage. For instance, an employer would have to increase wages to make up for revoking coverage or risk losing some of its most valuable employees. The tax consequences of this wage increase and...

A number theorist might not even understand all the figures being thrown out from every consulting firm these days. Depending on whos telling you, health reform will be responsible for employers dropping health coverage in record numbers, thus forcing employees to leave their cushy plans; it will be responsible for...

Its been a rough couple of years for insurance agents best case, health reform will drastically change the way brokers do business; worst case, brokers might have their commissions slashed and find that the new insurance exchanges can quickly and easily perform many of the services they offer clients...