Industry Updates
This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.
California insurance agents and advisors are teaming up with insurers and employers in the state to stop Senate Bill 562, a bill that could create a universal, government-funded health care program for all California residents.
At the unveiling of his revised $183 billion budget proposal on Thursday, California Gov. Jerry Brown pointed to a chart showing that nearly $125 billion dollars in federal health care dollars would disappear over the course of a decade if Republicans dismantle the Affordable Care Act as proposed.
Citing very low enrollment, the Trump administration on Monday proposed that beginning in 2018 small businesses would no longer be able to enroll workers in health insurance plans through the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney dropped a surprising clue Thursday about how President Trump might bring drug prices down, describing the kind of government intervention that traditionally has been supported by Democrats.
Annthem Inc. is finally ending its soured, $48-billion bid to buy rival Cigna Corp., but the nation's second-largest health insurer isn't giving up a fight over whether Cigna deserves a termination fee for the scrapped deal.
A proposal aiming to force pharmaceutical companies to disclose how they set insulin prices cleared its first hurdle at the Nevada Legislature on Wednesday, without a provision that sought a price cap on insulin.
President Donald Trump urged Senate Republicans on Sunday to "not let the American people down," as the contentious debate over overhauling the U.S. health care systems shifts to Congress' upper chamber, where a vote is potentially weeks, if not months, away.
The American Health Care Act, set for a House vote Thursday, would transform the nation’s health insurance system and create a new slate of winners and losers.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday said he doesn't have a problem if the Senate wants to write its own healthcare bill.
At a recent town hall, California’s Sen. Dianne Feinstein was unfairly criticized for expressing concern about proposed state legislation to create a “single-payer” health care system for California. Her concerns are well founded. The practical reality is that setting up a single-payer system, especially for just one state, is unworkable.