Around the Capitol: Jump in health insurance costs shows need for reform (Dearborn Press & Guide)
Congressman John D. Dingell (D-Dearborn) made the following remarks after Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a new report on health insurance premium increases.
Under Fire for Health Insurance Rate Hikes, WellPoint Goes To Court to Defend Denial of Care (ABC News)
As its chief executive heads to Washington to face Congressional outrage over dramatic rate hikes, WellPoint is facing the accusation that it “put profits over people” in handling the claim of a California man who needed an urgent liver transplant. California – WellPoint – Liver – Health insurance – Washington
Pan-American Life Insurance Group Reports Strong Operating Performance and Investment Gains in 2009 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Pan-American Life Insurance Group today announced that in 2009 the company generated revenues of $423 million and pre-tax operating earnings of $26.6 million, representing annual growth of 5.6% and 4.2% respectively.
Health insurance to take a hike (Adelaide Now)
FAMILIES will pay an extra $150 to $200 a year for health insurance, after the Federal Government approved the funds’ requests for premium rises.
At Oklahoma Capitol rally, group says health care is a human right (The Oklahoman)
Health care is a basic human right and should be adequate and equitable for all, members of an Oklahoma group said as they rallied before an anemic turnout Monday outside the state Capitol.”There must not be one standard of health care for the privileged and another for the disadvantaged,” said Leslie Perkel, acting chairman of the Central Oklahoma Human Rights Alliance. “It’s not a political …
TN lawmakers challenge health insurance mandate (The Fairview Observer)
The state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that could preempt part of the Democratic health care plan, voting 26-1 for legislation that would ban the federal government from requiring Tennesseans to buy health insurance.
Human rights group rallies for health care (KJRH-TV Tulsa)
About a dozen members of a human rights group are lobbied at the state Capitol on Monday for universal health care.
Bill would require review of health insurance rates (New Haven Register)
The state’s health care advocate is proposing legislation that would open up review of health insurance rate increases in Connecticut, while allowing his office and the attorney general to act as intervenors and appeal decisions to the courts.
Rate Regulation for Health Insurance: Obama Administration Should Look to CA’s Model Law Which Has Saved Drivers $62 … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The consumer group that pioneered the most successful insurance premium regulation law in the nation, California’s Proposition 103, today said only the extension of such “prior approval” regulation to health insurance can begin to make insurance affordable in the wake of double digit premium increases that have dramatically out-paced wages.
States investigating health plans sold as insurance (Kingsport Times-News)
A Springfield-based group selling allegedly illegal health-insurance policies has collected more than $14 million from consumers over the past two years, and now is under investigation in a number of states, including Tennessee.