By Ana B. Ibarra California Healthline alifornia’s insurance commissioner, Dave Jones, put executives of insurance giants Aetna Inc. and Humana Inc. in the hot seat Tuesday over their proposal for a merger that could create the […]
By Emily Bazar California Healthline Sixteen members of California’s U.S. Congressional delegation are calling on Covered California to quickly fix a problem that has caused some pregnant women to be dropped from their health plans and […]
LIFE INSURANCE Sales Climb for Life/Combination Products New premium for individual life combination products rose 14% in 2015. It’s a rebound from the decline in new premium growth in 2014, according to a LIMRA report. […]
HEALTHCARE Emergency Visits Have Not Gone Down Since the ACA Emergency visits are increasing despite the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jay Kaplan, MD, […]
By Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News A Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and Harvard oncologist have a proposal to get highly effective but prohibitively expensive drugs into consumers’ hands: health care installment loans. Writing last month in […]
By Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News Most consumers don’t believe the adage that “you get what you pay for” in health care, according to a new study. The report in this month’s issue of the journal […]
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