Tag: Insurance Industry

Instead of price shopping, consumers in the study stopped getting all sorts of medical procedures, even those that are useful. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Popular high-deductible plans could be hurting healthcare

Robert King · October 13, 2015 4:01 am

The Medicare open enrollment period starts Thursday and runs until Dec. 7.Â Â (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Seniors facing bigger pricetags as Medicare enrollment opens

Robert King · October 12, 2015 7:08 pm

Kentucky insurer shuts down

Robert King · October 9, 2015 11:05 pm

The legislation, dubbed the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act, represents a relatively rare instance in which Democrats and Republicans have agreed to tweak the 2010 healthcare law.Â (AP file photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama signs Obamacare change

Paige Winfield Cunningham · October 8, 2015 4:16 pm

Nationwide there are nearly 2 million people living with hepatitis B and 3.2 million who have hepatitis C.Â (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Health insurers accused of discrimination

Robert King · October 5, 2015 6:19 pm

As insurers enrolled more older, sicker Americans under the new healthcare law, they were promised some federal money to help cover their new costs, through a program known as risk corridors.Â (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Obamacare shorts health insurers $2.5 billion

Paige Winfield Cunningham · October 2, 2015 4:02 pm

A woman gets insurance information during a healthcareÂ rally.Â Minnesota's regulators announced that the average rate increase for Obamacare enrollees would range from 14 to 49 percent in 2016.Â (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Obamacare rates could jump nearly 50 percent in Minn.

Robert King · October 2, 2015 2:55 pm

The GOP Obamacare replacement plan would change how tax credits are given out to pay down the cost of insurance. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Obamacare woes persist as third anniversary looms

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 25, 2015 4:01 am

A new survey shows that while more people are getting coverage, many workers who get insurance from their employers are paying a lot more for healthcare.Â (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Companies shift health costs to workers, study says

Robert King · September 23, 2015 4:01 am

US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Mathews Burwell gestures during the closing session at the National Governors Association Summer meeting at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Saturday, July 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

More than 17 million have insurance under Obamacare

Robert King · September 22, 2015 5:14 pm

One-third of the insurers created in 2014 have announced they will close. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Finance and Economy

Premiums for worker health plans rise 4 percent in 2015

Robert King · September 22, 2015 5:06 pm

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it expects 10 million people to sign up for Obamacare coverage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gap between uninsured whites and minorities reduced

Robert King · September 16, 2015 9:06 pm