Tag: Insurance Industry

The demise of the exchanges should concern us all, as consumers and taxpayers. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

The ACA’s health insurance exchanges are sickly

Hadley Heath Manning · May 19, 2016 4:03 am

Highmark lost $85 million last year, in part due to losses from Obamacare. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Insurer sues government to recover Obamacare losses

Robert King · May 18, 2016 9:17 pm

Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans lacked health insurance in 2015, new data shows. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato)

Uninsured rate declined last year

Robert King · May 17, 2016 2:10 pm

Patient Amanda Thornton, left, of Aloha, Ore., speaks with primary care doctor John Guerreiro at a clinic run by the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Beaverton, Ore. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)

Get ready for more Obamacare premium spikes

Robert King · May 16, 2016 4:01 am

A new car insurance survey finds that a majority of parents call the driving skills of their kids "scary." (Press-Register via AP Photo)

Washington Secrets

64% of parents call their kid’s driving skills ‘scary’

Paul Bedard · May 9, 2016 12:56 pm

Of the five biggest insurers in the U.S., two announced they would exit part of the Obamacare marketplaces. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Earnings reports show trouble ahead for Obamacare

Robert King · May 8, 2016 4:01 am

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made it harder for an Obamacare customer to apply for certain special enrollment periods and changed rules overseeing taxpayer-funded consumer operated and oriented plans. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Feds tighten Obamacare year-round enrollments

Robert King · May 6, 2016 9:22 pm

Cigna did not divulge how many customers it expected to lose, although it also noted that it would lose Medicare Part D customers as well. (AP Photo)

Another big insurer expects Obamacare losses

Robert King · May 6, 2016 2:06 pm

Committees said they are tired of waiting for answers on the law’s cost-sharing reduction program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House subpoenas HHS on Obamacare insurer bailouts

Robert King · May 4, 2016 9:51 pm

Insurer cites steep financial losses from patients in the individual market. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Humana warns it will exit some Obamacare exchanges

Robert King · May 4, 2016 1:04 pm

Insurers still have ways of imposing undue costs and burdens on customers — particularly those suffering from chronic and serious health conditions. (iStock photo)

It’s time to end all types of healthcare discrimination

Carl Schmid · May 2, 2016 4:03 am

Johnson & Johnson, the 800-pound gorilla of the contact lens industry, is one of the crony capitalist entities trying to peel back even the modest market-minded reforms enacted by the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Contact cronies

Eric Peters · April 29, 2016 4:01 am