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United Healthcare is expanding its Cancer Support Program for many if its insureds: " The Cancer Support Program helps save clients m...

Via email this morning: " [On Friday], July 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) [began] implementing a ne...

Oh: The combined net worth of all US billionaires is $2.7 trillion. That means if you were to tax billionaires at 100% AND send in agents...

I've wondered for a while now about how the life insurance industry is going to handle the inevitable case of a transgendered male re...

One of our most oft-repeated mantras here at IB is that health insurance is not health care . Now, that may seem self-evident, but far ...

So to all the alphabet soup that is modern American heath care, we can add QSEHRA (Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangem...

Truth bomb: A good time to remember that if I created a health insurance product that exactly mirrored Medicare Parts A+B+D it would be ...

So this comes across my timeline: Some life settlement companies have responded to universal life cost-of-insurance increases by suing...

Almost two years ago, we reported that Belgium's then-new regs permitting "assisted suicide" for minors was up and, er, run...

From our friends at Cornerstone : " Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment reported Monday about an insurance fraud s...

Shot: Pay £15,000 to jump the queue for a hip operation on the NHS https://t.co/tvdUNBb05a via @DailyMailUK pic.twitter.com/dRAJBNb7ut...

Readers may recall this story from last summer: " [T]he application was apparently written in Ohio, but the applicant chose to have...

Previously on Oy, Canada : " Patients also experience significant waiting times for various diagnostic technologies ." And that...

Specifically, enforced medical tourism. For example, just a week or so ago we learned of a teeneager with a heart condition that the Bri...

Well, it's that time of year again, when the temps soar, folks head to the beach and the pool, and insurance companies announce when ...

Over the years, we've reported on a number of health insurance claims that hit (and/or exceeded) the magic $1 million mark. These hav...

That was then (early 2016): " So we have one woman who went from the AFL-CIO to AHIP to EmblemHealth. But who replaced her? W...

India faces an interesting challenge: how to provide health care to its most vulnerable (ie poorest) citizens. Currently, health care fin...

■ Case Study #1, The Much Vaunted National Health Service©: Nurses quit NHS to work in Lidl because pay, hours and benefits better via...

Last month, we reported on the strange case of the child versus the glass sculpture: " [T]he young lad, attending a wedding reception ...