Most individual health insurance isn't good enough for Obamacare

Published - 04/03/2013 12:00 AM

Just over half of the individual plans currently on the market do not meet the standards to be sold next year, when many key provisions of President Obama's Affordable Care Act kick in, according to a University of Chicago study. That's because the law sets new minimums for the basic ... 

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MetLife Launches Group Accident Insurance

Published - 04/02/2013 12:00 AM

MetLife has added group accident insurance to its portfolio of supplemental health insurance products to help employers and their employees address the challenges associated with rising healthcare costs. MetLife says that, with the voluntary group accident insurance, employers have a simple and affordable way to provide additional protection that ... 

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Small Firms’ Offer of Plan Choices Under Health Law Delayed

Published - 04/02/2013 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON — Unable to meet tight deadlines in the new health care law, the Obama administration is delaying parts of a program intended to provide affordable health insurance to small businesses and their employees — a major selling point for the health care legislation. The law calls for ... 

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Arrival of insurance exchanges raise questions about health coverage in 2014

Published - 04/01/2013 12:00 AM

As landmark dates approach in the health-care overhaul, readers are trying to figure out how the new insurance exchanges will work. Some recent questions:   After the exchanges go live in 2014, will consumers still be able to buy individual health insurance directly from carriers, without going through those state-based ... 

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States eye private insurance for Medicaid expansion enrollees

Published - 03/20/2013 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)  Republican state lawmakers may not want to expand Medicaid, but some are warming up to the idea of using federal funds to buy private insurance for the poor. That twist is keeping alive the possibility of broadening Medicaid coverage in states where conservative legislators are bucking ... 

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Medicaid Expansion Is Rejected in Florida

Published - 03/13/2013 12:00 AM

MIAMI — Rebuffing Gov. Rick Scott’s support of Medicaid expansion, a Florida Senate committee on Monday rejected the idea, all but ending the possibility that the state would add more poor people to Medicaid rolls. But the Senate panel debating the expansion proposed a compromise: to accept the ... 

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Health costs are not sole success metric of investment in wellness programs

Published - 03/11/2013 12:00 AM

DALLAS — Employers can greatly improve their employee health and wellness management programs' chances of success by recognizing the relationships between workforce health, productivity and overall corporate performance, several experts say. Management of employee health and productivity has evolved substantially in recent years, Thomas Parry, president of the ... 

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Anger and Kudos as Florida Governor Tacks Left

Published - 03/06/2013 11:00 PM

MIAMI — A few days after Gov. Rick Scott of Florida endorsed a Medicaid expansion, a U-turn so sharply executed that it flabbergasted his supporters, the head of a local Tea Party group typed up a “breakup note.” “I’m trying to determine how the Medicaid expansion is going ... 

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