Health Insurance News

House and Senate lawmakers moved close to agreement Wednesday on a severely scaled-back version of a bill intended to align state insurance rules with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.

California lawmakers are considering a bill that would require the state's health insurance exchange to make more contract information available to the public.

But it already seems clear that the final budget that will emerge from the General Assembly will be mostly bad for Ohio.

New health insurance exchanges being set up by the federal government in more than 30 states under President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul could miss an October 1 deadline for open enrollment, a government report said on Wednesday.

A federal judge says a Christian college in western Pennsylvania can exclude coverage for birth control like the morning-after pill and the week-after pill when it offers a health insurance plan to its students.

The expansion vote, which took place during a special state budget session last week, allows more Arizonans with low incomes to qualify for health insurance coverage.

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about Affordable Care Act at The Fairmont Hotel on June 7, 2013 in San Jose, California.

According to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, federal health officials have proposed that all health plans selling insurance on the new online marketplaces must allow easy payment options for households without bank accounts or credit cards.

Aetna Inc. said it would stop selling individual health insurance policies in California next month, and nearly 50,000 existing policyholders will have to find new coverage by January.

Aetna Inc. said it would stop selling individual health insurance policies in California next month, and nearly 50,000 existing policyholders will have to find new coverage by January.

A nonprofit group helping to spread the word about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul launched a campaign Tuesday that will target states with high numbers of uninsured Americans and tackle their skepticism with straightforward messages.

Next year, when insurance marketplaces open under the federal health law and many job-based and individual plans have to meet new standards for coverage and costs, chances are that lots of people are going to need a hand navigating the system .

The was the harsh diagnosis presented by Professor Hoosen Coovadia, emeritus professor of paediatrics and child health, to the Discovery Volunteer Forum in uMhlanga.

More than 150 community groups in Illinois have applied for $28 million in federal funding to educate the public about new opportunities for health insurance under the national health law.

Gutierrez, who has led the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' immigration efforts, has said the two parties don't see eye to eye on who should have access to health care.

More than 30,000 state and local government workers face a 15 percent increase for their health care insurance starting next month, but it could be only the beginning of higher costs as New Mexico's self-insurance program digs out of a financial hole.

As part of what advocates call the "next step" of the Affordable Care Act, California voters will consider an initiative next year that will empower regulators and consumer advocates to challenge health insurance premium rate hikes.

English: President Barack Obama's signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010.

Call it the Affordable Care Act, call it Obamacare, call it whatever you want it's coming.

But nagging cost questions will slowly be answered this summer as insurers and state officials set 2014 health plan rates for people who buy coverage outside of work or purchase it through small employers.