Archive for July 2014
How much did subsidies cut consumers’ health insurance costs?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s mandated health insurance exchanges helped to reduce consumers’ costs by giving them subsidies. In general, those were extremely beneficial to many qualifying Americans.
Read MoreResearchers signed fake people up for health insurance exchanges
There were a number of rather notable developments and controversies surrounding the implementation of the health insurance exchanges mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act over the last year-plus.
Read MoreHow Can Life Insurers Reach That Elusive Millennial Audience?
One of the biggest challenges for life insurance issuers over the past few years has been the fact that young people who might, in past generations, have been primed to buy coverage are simply not doing so these days.
Read MoreLife insurance industry continues to see better returns
The last year or two has been relatively good to the life insurance industry overall.
Read MoreLife insurance companies have changing attitudes toward e-cigarettes
In the past few years, a new type of “smoking” has become all the rage among many people who used to go through a pack a day, and the attitudes of the life insurance industry are quickly changing as a result.
Read MoreNew GASB accounting standards on the way
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has approved the release of two exposure drafts related to accounting for Other Postemployment Benefits (OPEB).
Read MoreMore health insurers monitoring consumers’ online habits
When it comes to the amount of data companies in all industries are using these days to streamline their processes, health insurers seem to be ready and willing adopters of these new methods overall.
Read MoreStates reviewing their health insurance laws under new environment
The ways in which insurance companies across the country are able to deal with health coverage has changed significantly in the last few years, and that’s just on a national level.
Read MoreCalifornia mulls options to limit health insurance rate increases
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act obviously brought with it sweeping changes for the health insurance industry, but at the same time, it also impacted the ways in which government agencies in that sector must operate.
Read MoreEmployers consider bare-bones coverage plans under ACA
One of the big questions that many industry analysts had when it came to health insurance coverage provided by employers under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates – which go into effect next year – was simply how smaller companies in particular might react.
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