Posts Tagged ‘healthcare costs’
Why Medical Bills are Killing Us
Why are we paying so much for healthcare? Why do we spend nearly 20% of our gross domestic product on health care, twice as much as most other developed countries, which get the same or better health outcomes? When Sean Recchi was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson [...]
Rate Shock Looms for California Consumers
As the 2014 deadline for full implementation approaches for subsidized health care coverage, health care premiums are rising and uncertainty remains over insurance cost and availability. Many states and state-based organizations have analyzed how the ACA will affect health insurance premiums for small groups and individuals. According to [...]
Health Insurance Costs Growing at Half the Rate of Last Year
The average cost for a family plan obtained through an employer jumped this year to $15,745 from $15,073 in 2011, when premiums rose 9.5 percent according to the Kaiser Family Foundation after surveying more than 2,000 companies. Premiums, a cost typically shared by employers and employees, have doubled in the past decade, three times the gains [...]
More Workers Opting out of Health Plans
A new study from the Employment Benefit Research Institute finds that 55.8 percent of employees were getting health insurance directly from their employer as of April 2011, the most recent data available. That’s a nearly 5 percentage point drop from December 2007, when the economy first went into recession. Early research shows that the number [...]
UnitedHealthcare Agrees to Cover Behavioral Therapy for Autism
April 18 – by Leila Morris Subscribe to Insurance Insider News IN CALIFORNIA • UnitedHealthcare Agrees to Cover Behavioral Therapy for Autism • Life Agent Is Charged With Grand Theft NEW PRODUCTS • Free Educational Webinars on Health Insurance • Fixed Immediate Annuity • Prescription Adherence Tool • National Vision [...]
More Employers Tie Health Insurance to Medical Tests
These days, more employees are being asked to undergo medical tests, participate in disease-management programs, and quit smoking to qualify for hundreds, even thousands of dollars' worth of premium or deductible discounts. Proponents of these practices say it encourages healthier lifestyle choices by offering a financial incentive while [...]
