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Brockton health insurance changes defeated by City Council

The vote in the City Council’s Finance Committee Monday night was a foregone conclusion about halfway into the two hour debate on whether or not to adopt the state’s municipal health insurance reform law in Brockton.

LePage pushes lawmakers to make his cuts

The governor threatens to veto any plan that keeps health insurance for childless adults.

Medical debt keeps rising, new report shows

A comprehensive new report on health insurance shows the so-called Great Recession caused hundreds of thousands of Californians to lose coverage and acquire medical debt.

Health funds told to drop planned rises in premiums

The Gillard government announces sweeping moves to rein in health insurance premium rises.

5 ways your boss is downsizing your health insurance

With the average yearly health insurance premium projected to top $10,000 per worker this year, according to human resources consulting firm Aon Hewitt, employers are doing whatever they can to cut health care costs.

Well-off get more from health insurance rebate

THE Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has revealed the disproportionate benefits better-off people get out of the health insurance rebate in a fresh bid to swing support for a means test.

Vt. would allow 'bronze plan' to encourage health

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and legislative leaders said Monday they wanted to make it possible for more of the state's small businesses to offer lower premium health insurance plans sometimes known as ...

$1.5M New West deal before insurance commissioner

State regulators are examining a $1.5 million proposal by an Oregon insurer to take over a portion of Montana's third-largest health insurance company as part of a government anti-trust settlement.

New report on state of health insurance in California

Hard hit by one of the worst recessions in nearly a century, hundreds of thousands of Californians lost insurance coverage across the state as employers shed jobs and the health plans that came with those jobs, according to a new report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.