Health Insurance News

America’s Health Insurance Plans launches education campaign (BizJournals)
America’s Health Insurance Plans launched a new national education campaign to better inform people about risks of needing long-term care and the financial protection long-term care insurance provides.

Legislators Discuss Teacher Health Insurance (KTHV Little Rock)
Arkansas lawmakers will have to decide whether offering teachers the same health insurance plan as other state workers is required under a Supreme Court decision on school funding.

State Health Care Reform: Retargeting Medicaid Hospital Payments to Expand Health Insurance Cover (Heritage Foundation)
State officials committed to reforming health care must make a threshold decision: whether to use exist ing government health care funding to help individu als and families purchase their own health insurance or to continue funneling taxpayer dollars into existing health care institutions to defray the costs of caring for the uninsured in emergency rooms.

Arkansas Legislators Discuss Teacher Health Insurance (Arkansas Business)
Arkansas lawmakers will have to decide whether offering teachers the same health insurance plan as other state workers is required under a Supreme Court decision on school funding. It's a decision that could add hundreds of million of dollars to a state budget already being drafted.

Health insurance group spent $1.9M lobbying in 2Q (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
America's Health Insurance Plans, the trade group that represents the health insurance industry, spent nearly $1.9 million lobbying the federal government in the second quarter.