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Look to auto insurance for health payers' consumer-centric future
If you watch television, you know all about car insurance commercials. You can probably even quickly identify the various mascots for the companies--the ubiquitous cavemen, the gecko, the "mayhem"
AHIP: Health reform unworkable without individual mandate
The insurance lobby group America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has advised the U.S. Supreme Court that the health reform law is unworkable without an individual mandate because the two are
Report: Scarce competition among insurers
Most insurance companies face little to no competition, as many states have insurance markets that are dominated by just one or two health companies, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family
Maine gets first waiver from Obama's medical-loss ratio rule
Maine is the first U.S. state granted a three-year waiver against the Obama Administration's healthcare reform regulations that require health insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars
Times are changing: Insurers must adapt to increased oversight
The time when insurers "ran wild with no accountability" is over. Now they are set to "finally get some oversight" as HHS reviews large premium increases and identifies those that are unreasonable,
Insurers open retail stores to sell individual policies
Health plans are beginning to show up at the mall. WellPoint's Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado is the latest of a handful that have opened a retail store. The store is at Southwest
Federal antitrust scrutiny for insurers: It's about time
Over the past several years, health insurance companies have done an extremely good job of merging and acquiring each other. That's so much the case that in some markets, there's only one or two
