Health Insurance News

Health exchange officials announced affordable rates for insurance plans which will be available once the Affordable Care Act's exchange marketplaces open next year.

Health insurance companies doing business with the public hospital were approved a mere 10-percent discount on the new fees enforced at the Commonwealth Health Center.

The Dirigo Health insurance program, established with great fanfare a decade ago as a nationally pioneering program to cover the uninsured, is phasing out of business.

In one system, patients will be able to see doctors promptly . They will talk to physicians by phone and email.

The Affordable Care Actpassed in 2010 mandates that all Americans be covered by some sort of insurance plan.

A planned health insurance exchange program could bring coverage to about 430,000 previously uninsured New Mexicans.

DOHA: In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Council of Health has stopped any further increase in prices of private clinics and hospitals until the proposed national health insurance scheme is fully implemented.

SEPTEMBER 12: Former Sen. Alan Simpson and former White House Chief of Staff under the Clinton Administration Erskine Bowles , both co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, have endorsed eliminating state-based provider taxes, one of the ways in which states manipulate federal health-care spending.

A Chicago hospital that treats a large number of uninsured patients has laid off nearly 70 employees, including emergency room nurses.

As President Obama rallied support for federal health care legislation at a Labor Day picnic in 2009, he told labor unions and the public that they could keep the health insurance they had, if they liked it.

California unveiled prices on Thursday that consumers will pay for a selection of health plans offered through the state under the Affordable Care Act, providing a glimpse into how health care reform may look as it is rolled out across the nation.

Instead of subsidizing coverage for a Honda version of health insurance, the governor wants to use your money to provide a Cadillac plan - a self-inflicted extra cost.

The refusal by about half the states to expand Medicaid will leave millions of poor people ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law even as many others with higher incomes receive federal subsidies to buy insurance.

With major provisions of the new health care law set to kick in on Jan. 1, Republicans Monday warned of impending insurance premium hikes, while Democrats said that was an overreaction, leaving consumers and insurers with no clear answer.

Opponents of Maine's new health care reform law erroneously describe the law as "a gift to the insurance companies." [1] In reality that gift has come in the form of more stable markets spurring investment and opportunities for insurers to compete for market share.

California health officials on Thursday unveiled the likely rates that insurers will charge under the health-care law backed by President Barack Obama - and they are lower than expected, rebutting warnings by critics that many people will experience "rate shock" once the law is fully implemented.

Wisconsin state workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a Gov.

The Illinois Senate agreed Thursday to create a state-governed "health insurance exchange" where individuals and small businesses could shop for coverage as required by President Barack Obama 's health law.

The Internal Revenue Service is an important cog in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly shorthanded as Obamacare.

The first three months of 2013 saw a reduction of half a percent in the number of New Zealanders with health insurance cover, according to figures released today by the Health Funds Association.