Members of the full House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted 33-17 to endorse H.R. 1173, a bill that could officially kill off the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) program.

The California Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) is growing rapidly, but the number of enrollees is still much lower than expected, and the average amount of claims per enrollee is much higher than expected.

President Obama has picked Marilyn Tavenner, a nurse who got her start in hospital administration, to be the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

No matter what happens to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (2010), the trend toward individual and small group health coverage sales shifting to exchanges likely will continue.

Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates approved new health insurance exchange policies this weekend at a meeting in New Orleans.

U.S. employers with more than 50 workers seem to be much more concerned about a federal tax on expensive health benefits packages than they are about the idea of having to provide coverage for all full-time employers.

Analysts at Fitch Ratings whack long-term care insurance (LTCI) hard in a review of the statutory results of U.S. individual LTCI operations.

The Speed to Market Task Force, an arm of the NAIC executive committee, is supposed to help guide NAIC efforts to modernize the insurance product filing and review processes.