Health Insurance practice lby financial services analyst and research firm Aite Group; Kunal Pandya will head new practice focused on IT, regulatory and business issues affecting Health Insurance and Healthcare sectors.

Massachusetts has the most expensive family health insurance premiums in the country, according to a new analysis that highlights the state’s challenge in trying to rein in medical costs after passage of a landmark 2006 law that mandated coverage for nearly everyone.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman raised eyebrows this week when he launched a financial probe into the nation’s largest insurance companies, which are at the center of the health reform battle.

The city of Temple’s employee insurance rates in some cases may be close to double or triple current monthly premiums. Still, this plan comes after a thorough bid process conducted by a committee that compared four competitive offers.

Public options? A co-op? Or how about sticking with the status quo of good old-fashioned private medical insurance plans?

After 30 years of punishing caseloads and never-ending stacks of paperwork, Harry Shriver was getting ready to hang up his doctor’s coat and retire when he tried something new. Shriver’s practice, part of a health care cooperative in Washington state, launched a program that allowed him to cut his appointments from 24 to 12 a day, leaving him more time for each patient. He also now handles …

Protestors waved signs supporting health care outside North Carolina’s largest insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield during the lunch hour Thursday. “People do you want change because the affordability is getting out of hand,” said organizer Lynice Williams. Protestor after protestor complained about high premiums and insurance rates going up year after year. Lou Meyers of Durham says when he turned 55 …

Members of a state legislators working group headed by Sen. Jack Hatch, D-Des Moines, have helped gather more than 850 signatures of lawmakers in favor of the public insurance option of health reform.

Families in Bergen, Morris, Passaic, Sussex and Warren counties who have a child with no health insurance should know that help is on the way. It is coming via U.S. mail.

Democrats in Congress are investigating the private health insurance industry, requesting data on CEO salaries and bonuses, profit margins, corporate retreats and spending and premium charges from the largest insurance companies.