Making health insurance work for consumers - Insurance News | InsuranceNewsNet

In two decades, America went from only 9 percent of the population having health insurance to 70 percent. By 1960, health insurance had replaced personal payment as the dominant way of paying for ... Read More

Health insurers vow to fix this common source of consumer complaints: What to know

The changes to prior authorization will be phased in over the next year and a half, the companies said. In all, insurers said the changes would apply to 257 million Americans covered by private ... Read More

Making Health Insurance Work for Consumers - WSJ

Making Health Insurance Work for Consumers Unaffordable out-of-pocket maximums and unregulated determinations of medical necessity pose big problems for families. Share ... Read More

Covered California health insurance premiums will go up next year, but many consumers won’t feel it - The Mercury News

Monthly health insurance premiums for roughly 1.7 million people in California will go up an average of 9.6% next year — the largest increase in five years — but state officials said many ... Read More

Leventhal: Make health insurance work for consumers - Boston Herald

By 1960, health insurance had replaced personal payment as the dominant way of paying for healthcare. In 1965, employment-based health insurance had become so ubiquitous that Congress needed to ... Read More

More employers adopting ICHRAs, giving workers money to buy their own health insurance

A small, growing number of employers are putting health insurance decisions entirely in the hands of their workers. Instead of offering traditional insurance, they’re giving workers money to buy their ... Read More

As anger at UnitedHealthcare boils over, Americans pay more than ever for health insurance - CBS News

Health insurance costs are far outpacing inflation, leaving more consumers on the hook each year for thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses. At the same time, some insurers are rejecting ... Read More

Insurance doesn't shield consumers from medical billing errors - USA TODAY

Consumers don't know they can fight medical billing errors. The survey aimed to address a basic question: Why do so many Americans struggle to get their health insurance to work for them? Read More

Restoring health insurance to its original purpose - The Hill

The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is advocating for returning health insurance to its original purpose, protecting beneficiaries from unexpected financial risks, in order to improve he… ... Read More

Making Health Insurance Enrollment As Automatic As Possible (Part 2)

Editor’s note: Part 1 of this post discussed previous uses of auto-enrollment with health insurance and other benefits as well as recent efforts in Maryland to deploy auto-enrollment to improve ... Read More

Making health insurance work for consumers - Insurance News | InsuranceNewsNet

Healthcare in the United States is expensive. While a great deal of legislation has been aimed at keeping those costs down, looking at how it got so expensive in the first place is the key to ... Read More