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Obama Touts California as Health-Care Reform Model »
The impact of President Obama's health-care law on medical costs is hotly debated. On Friday, he argued his side, highlighting trends in California where premiums by some measures may not change much. Critics, however, say the law will push health premiums up, not down, and many Americans appear to share that worry. The [Read More]
Insurance Insider News
Early Filings Signal Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs For Bronze Plans »
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by Leila Morris
HEALTHCARE
• Early Filings Signal Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs for Bronze Plans
• Workers Are Not Prepared For Consumer-Driven Health Care
• Healthcare Costs Increases to Slow
• Price Transparency Efforts Miss the Mark
• Insurers Don’t Provide Enough Cost and Quality Information
• Consumer Directed Health Plan Enrollment Surges in 2012
• Research Finds Momentum for Health Care Payment Reform
LONG-TERM
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Industry Updates
Blue Shield, Anthem Owe Small Firms Rebates »
Blue Shield of California owes $24.5 million in rebates to thousands of small-business customers, [Read More]
Insurers Limit Doctors and Hospitals in State-Run »
California's health insurance rates for a new state-run marketplace came in lower than expected [Read More]
13 Insurers Involved in Covered California »
Covered California unveiled the 13 health insurers who have agreed to be part of the marketplace, [Read More]
Surveys
2013 PPO Survey »
PPO Power – Welcome to Our 13th Annual PPO Survey Welcome to our 13th annual PPO survey. For this survey, seven [Read More]
2012 HMO Survey »
Our Annual HMO Survey Retrieving Information on HMOs Our Dogged Research Pays Off Welcome to the 16th annual agents’ guide to [Read More]
2012 Dental Survey »
Tuning In To Our Annual Dental Survey Welcome to Part I of California Broker’s 2012 Dental Survey. We’ve asked the top dental [Read More]
Legislative Analysis
Will ObamaCare Kill CA Health Insurance? »
Will relatively young and healthy people purchase health insurance from the ObamaCare exchanges? After the release of insurance [Read More]
A Hidden Tax in Obamacare? »
The central provisions of the Affordable Care Act require younger and healthier Americans to buy insurance policies that will, in [Read More]
Senate OKs Bills Addressing Medical Provider Gap »
Over the objection of doctors, the state Senate on Tuesday passed two of three health reform-related bills intended to address [Read More]
Major Providers “Sitting Out” »
All eyes are focused on California, which offers quite the blend of individual and commercial customers, as well as a number of [Read More]