Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
January 31, 2025
Trump May Give DOGE Access to Treasury Payment Systems: ReportThe systems send out bond payments, Social Security payments and tax refunds.
January 25, 2025
How Technology Can Support Medicare EnrollmentUsing the right tools can make getting your clients covered much easier.
January 24, 2025
10 House GOP Health Program and Tax Change IdeasIf implemented, they could affect where and how clients get their medical care.
January 23, 2025
Pre-Retirees Have a Health Care Planning ProblemA gap exists between perceptions of health care and long-term care costs and overall financial preparedness, research finds.
January 23, 2025
U.S. Consumers Face Much More Uncertainty About FinancesA new index shows why retirement savers look fine on paper but feel dizzy in practice.
January 21, 2025
Trump Blocks Medicare's Efforts to Create a $2 Prescription Drug ListHe also declared that any new or pending regulations may go through some things.
January 13, 2025
Life Application Activity Suffers From the Winter BlahsPost-election uncertainty and agents' efforts to help clients with Medicare enrollment stress may have hurt volume.
January 02, 2025
WSJ Goes After Insurers' Medicare Advantage StrategyReporters looked into allegations that plans make patients look sicker than they are to boost payments.
December 27, 2024
Will the Medicare Plan Market Please Stop Shaking?Amanda Brewton, a distribution and policy veteran, has ideas about how agents can help add stability.
December 23, 2024
Mid-Career Adults Face 19% Increase in Death RateThe major drivers appear to be drug overdoses, alcohol and cardiovascular problems.