PPACA could be much more expensive than it looks in official federal budget analyses because some of the automatic indexing provisions in the law could be unrealistic.

Is it time to blame PPACA? Or is the health insurance industry doing better with it? Health insurers and health and hospital companies comment on earnings and the year's business climate so far.

Analysts estimate H.R. 3762 could cut deficit by about $760 per year per additional uninsured person.

Managers of Community Health Alliance Mutual Insurance Company, a Tennessee carrier founded with $73 million in loans from the federal Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OP) program, have received state permission to put the company in a runoff process.

Insurance agents and brokers are struggling to get answers to a question they're just learning how to ask: How many health carriers are suffering serious problems as a result of the risk corridors program funding gap?

Managers of Kentucky Health Cooperative Inc., a nonprofit, member-owned health insurer based in Louisville, say the company will shut down at the end of the year.

Ben Nelson, the chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), will give up that job at the end of January, when his contract expires, the group announced.

A bill that would change a small-group definition provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), sailed through the Senate last Thursday.