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Entrepreneur
August 2005
Jacquelyn Lynn |
Faking It Fake health insurance policies are being sold to individuals and small businesses. Is your health policy legit?   |
Investment Advisor
April 2010
Marlene Y. Satter |
The Cost Issue The medical loss ratio is a key point when regulators look at how companies define costs. |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Privacy Up, Liability Down In State Houses This Year Privacy proposals will be one of the most prevalent -- though not the most hotly debated -- issues related to health coverage in state houses this year, according to a survey by the Health Insurance Association of America... |
Managed Care
May 2002
John Carroll |
Efforts To Kill Coverage Mandates Run Up Against Powerful Forces State coverage mandates were a popular feature on legislative agendas throughout the '90s. But when the economy soured last year and premiums shot up at a double-digit pace, a few legislators began launching bills in the hopes of rolling back mandates. Not so fast |
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Marlene Y. Satter |
Presidential Directions The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has a new president, Roger Sevigny, the New Hampshire insurance commissioner. |
Managed Care
June 2006
John Carroll |
Association Health Bill Fails Despite Senators' Support Patient advocacy groups work overtime to kill legislation that businesses felt would have provided less costly coverage for their employees. |
This Old House
November 2007
Deena Bustillo |
Are You Sure You're Insured? Many people are shocked by the mishaps their insurance policies don't cover. |
Managed Care
March 2006
John Carroll |
States Feel Less Inclined To Issue Coverage Mandates Many factors converge to steer legislatures away from being too intrusive with state insurance mandates. |
Managed Care
August 2004 |
State Mandates Promote Contraceptive Coverage A study shows that employer-based health plans are much more likely to cover contraception than they were 10 years ago and that state laws mandating coverage have played a role in that growth. |
BusinessWeek
October 15, 2007
Glen Whitman |
Bad Medicine For Health Care Politicians have tried to solve America's health-care woes by enacting an individual mandate - a law requiring every adult to purchase health insurance. Despite its bipartisan support, the individual mandate is bad policy, a vain attempt to command a better result while doing nothing to achieve it. |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both Ways Requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions needs to go hand-in-hand with requiring healthy people to purchase insurance. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
Marlene Y. Satter |
One Forward, Two Back? The Department of the Treasury released its Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure, which sets forth an argument for the need for change in the financial services industry. |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Weber et al. |
Health Insurance: Small Biz Is In A Bind Disproportionately hit by cost hikes, more small businesses have stop offering health care coverage to their workers. |
Insurance & Technology
July 19, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Modernization Boosts Speed to Market The more states that opt into the NAIC's Interstate Insurance Product Regulations Compact, the better off carriers will be. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2010
Jeanne Lee |
The Sky Is Not Falling Small business clients have been hard-hit by increased healthcare expenditures over the past 10 years, so it's not surprising that the healthcare reform bill has many of them anxious and confused. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 1, 2009
Jill Wechsler |
Kickoff for Reform In addition to overhauling healthcare, Congress is weighing proposals for updating FDA policies and expanding access to drugs. |
Managed Care
May 2001
Cyril F. Chang |
Covering Risk But Not Risky Behaviors A critical review of the arguments for insurance coverage for smoking-cessation therapies... |
Investment Advisor
September 2006 |
Insurance Streamlining Insurers and investors of all stripes are having their day in the sun this summer with action on major legislation, including the streamlining of specialty and reinsurance regulations. |
Investment Advisor
May 2009
Marlene Y. Satter |
Changing Climate How National Association of Insurance Commissioners will address climate change in public policy depends on what happens at the federal level. |
Reason
March 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Pay Up A new study, by economists at Brigham Young University, the Brookings Institution, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that community rating raises premiums by 10 percent to 17 percent for individual policies and by 21 percent to 33 percent for family policies. |
Insurance & Technology
February 19, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Tech Could Assist State-Based Reform Acknowledging that legacy technologies are not the only antiquated systems in insurance, carriers, trade associations and commissioners are aggressively approaching the regulatory reform of the insurance industry |
Investment Advisor
June 2009
Marlene Y. Satter |
Saving Grace You made sure your clients had all the right protection; then insurance became a minefield. What now? |
Investment Advisor
July 2007
Marlene Y. Satter |
A Long-Term Problem? Long-term care insurance has gotten a very public black eye among consumers. |
Insurance & Technology
August 19, 2004 |
Scoring Discrepency Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) opposes National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) recommendations on use of credit scores. |
Insurance & Technology
December 23, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Reform in Sight According to a recent study, regulatory compliance under the present state-by-state system will cost the life insurance industry $11 billion over the next decade. Still, given the recognition by all parties that change is needed, some kind of regulatory reform is inevitable. |
Insurance & Technology
April 21, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
NAIC Meeting's Emphasis on Solvency Will Drive Insurance IT Spend The NAIC's Solvency Modernization Initiative will drive regulation that supports global regulatory transparency and necessitate risk management and reporting technology modernization, according to Deloitte. |
Registered Rep.
March 6, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Federal Regulator For Insurance Firms? Barney Frank says Yes. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank gave insurance lobbying groups something to argue about, saying he wants lawmakers to create an optional federal charter for insurance companies. |
Investment Advisor
May 2009
Marlene Y. Satter |
Insurance Update: Out in the Open The National Association of Insurance Commissioners approved a compromise version of the climate change survey sent out for comments in 2008. |
Managed Care
June 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Health Plans, Insurers Unsure About Likely Effect of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Insurers and financial institutions are flooding customers' mailboxes about their rights to protect medical and financial information under what's better known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. But just how GLB will affect health plans isn't totally clear... |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Health Insurance ... or Else Health insurance can protect you from huge medical bills. Yet for a variety of reasons, many people go without health insurance. Now, government leaders are taking a new approach toward making sure everyone gets the medical care they need. |
Insurance & Technology
November 28, 2005
Maria Woehr |
Going SERFFing The System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing may provide a possible solution to reforming the current insurance regulatory system. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Gouged by Insurance? While consumer groups and insurance industry do battle, what can you do to make sure you're getting the coverage you need at an appropriate price? |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Marlene Y. Satter |
Careful What You Wish For Treasury proposes big change, but will insurance companies be happy? |
Insurance & Technology
February 9, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Associations' Priorities Run the Gamut Insurance industry associations will seek to influence public policy and enforce technological efficiency in 2004. |
