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Consumer Reports blasts 'junk' mini-med health plans

Mini-med health plans are "junk," and individuals should avoid them entirely, according to a new report published in the March issue of Consumer Reports magazine . Big insurers like Cigna and Aetna

Insurers gain 1M new customers in young adults

Young adults have become the fastest growing segment of the population to get healthcare coverage now that the reform law allows parents to cover their adult children as dependents on family

Standardized insurance summaries required next year

Just as food companies supply food nutrition labels, health insurers must provide existing and potential customers a standardized summary of their plans' costs and benefits starting March of next

More docs drop private insurance than Medicare

Despite increasing concern over Medicare beneficiaries' access to physician care, a study published in this week's Archives of Internal Medicine shows that doctors are abandoning contracts with

AHIP donated $86M to lobby against health reform law

America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) provided the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a business lobbying group, with $86.2 million to oppose the health reform law--while it pledged general support for