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.
Democrats sent Republicans a proposal over the weekend to renew enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years, paired with extensions of other expiring health programs, sources said. Why it matters: Sunday’s offer shows there’s increasing bipartisan sentiment to address long-stalled priorities like overhauling pharmacy benefit manager business practices — even if prospects for the ACA subsidies ...
Employer health plans are seeing a lot more participants with very high costs, according to a new report from Lockton. The firm runs an employer plan database that holds information on 882 employer groups and 3.9 million plan participants. One of the plan participants submitted $9.15 million in claims in 2024, and nine others submitted more ...
Members of the U.S. House today voted 221-205 to bring an Affordable Care Act health insurance premium subsidy bill resolution up on the House floor, against the wishes of Republican House leaders. The resolution could lead to floor consideration of an ACA premium subsidy bill. The underlying bill could keep the high ACA premium subsidy ...
The rapid rise in health care costs is forcing many Americans to make tough choices. Nearly 6 in 10 patients have skipped or delayed medical care because of the cost, and the same percentage has had difficulty paying a medical bill in full or on time, a new survey from the health care finance company ...
The Senate is staring down multiple flash points in the coming months as lawmakers head into a year colored by electoral politics but with plenty of policy fights on the horizon. Lawmakers wrapped up a grueling year by completing some of their pre-holiday agenda, including passing the annual National Defense Authorization Act and confirming scores of nominees. ...
In 2025 speaking with hundreds of employers and consultants, conversations were often upbeat and optimistic. But beneath that optimism, there’s a growing frustration that can’t be ignored. Year after year, health care costs continue to climb at record rates.
In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act helped millions get health insurance, California’s Placer County provided limited health care to some 3,400 uninsured residents who couldn’t afford to see a doctor. For several years, that number has been zero in the predominantly white, largely rural county stretching from Sacramento’s eastern suburbs to the shores of ...
A new law backed by California unions gives a state board the right to regulate working conditions and labor rights as the federal labor board’s fate is in limbo.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who cast a critical vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, on Monday blasted the reduction of the childhood immunization schedule by Kennedy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC announced Monday it would be reducing the number of recommended vaccines for children from ...
The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance in California rose at twice the pace of inflation over the past three years, squeezing workers’ paychecks and small businesses alike. More than 17 million Californians have health insurance through their job, according to a survey released in November by the health information group KFF. The average cost of premium payments ...