Health Insurance

Pan-American Life Insurance Group Names New Board Member

By at 16 November, 2011, 3:38 pm

NEW ORLEANS , Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG), a leading provider of life and health insurance in Latin America and the United States , announced today that Dr. Patrick J. Quinlan has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. (Photo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111116/CG07749) As Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ochsner [...]

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Highmark to Fundamentally Change Small Business Health Insurance Through Pilot Private Exchange with Array Health

By at 15 November, 2011, 3:22 pm

PITTSBURGH and SEATTLE , Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Highmark Inc., an independent Blue Cross Blue Shield plan based in Pittsburgh , announced today that it has partnered with Array Health, a leader in health insurance exchange technology and services, to fundamentally change small business health insurance by piloting a private exchange. Highmark’s private exchange, [...]

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Employer-Based Health Insurance Continues to Trend Down

By at 14 November, 2011, 2:27 pm

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of American adults who get their health insurance from an employer continues to decline, falling to 44.5% in the third quarter of this year. This percentage has been steadily declining since Gallup and Healthways started tracking Americans’ health insurance sources in 2008. At least 45% of Americans got their health [...]

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Since Obamacare’s Passage, Millions Have Lost Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

By at 13 November, 2011, 2:17 pm

Whether the decline in employer-sponsored insurance over the past 18 months is a product of Obamacare or of the Obama economy — and whether Obamacare is the principal cause of the anemic performance of the Obama economy — can be debated. But what’s clear is that, more than 25 months before Obamacare would really go [...]

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