Health insurers want purchase mandate - Arizona Daily Star

We hope this will be a contribution to help members of Congress fashion their proposal," said Karen Ignagni, president and chief executive officer of the trade group. "We're going to provide all the technical background that we have assembled, all ...

AARP Orders Investigation of Its Marketing - Chronicle of Philanthropy

Following a Senate inquiry that detected evidence of deceptive marketing, AARP and UnitedHealth Group have voluntarily suspended sales of some of their popular health-insurance products and have hired an outside investigator to look into the policies ...

Pa. senators oppose Blues insurance merger - Pittsburgh Tribune Review

HARRISBURG -- A Pennsylvania Senate committee says the state's insurance commissioner should reject the proposed merger of the state's two largest health insurers. The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee voted 10-4 Thursday to recommend that ...

Pennsylvania Senate committee votes not to recommend Highmark IBC ... - Pittsburgh Business Times

The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee voted 10-to-4 on Thursday to recommend against the merger of health insurers Highmark Inc. and Independence Blue Cross. And in case Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario decides to approve the merger, the ...

Report: 131K children in Indiana uninsured - Indianapolis Star

About 131,000 children in Indiana, or about 7.9 percent of the state’s population of children, do not have health insurance, according to a report released today by Families USA, a Washington D.C.-based consumer advocacy group. That rate, though ...