Regulators in California are letting health insurers build the death of a major Affordable Care Act subsidy program into their individual rates for 2018, in a way that may create a major opportunity for agents to reach out to consumers.

Medicare program managers are preparing to begin a massive health insurance card conversion in April, when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will discontinue use of Social Security numbers on Medicare cards.

New digital sales systems, big marketing campaigns or demographic math may have increased the number of young U.S. residents shopping for individual life insurance last month.

House Democrats asked Thursday why they have to find spending cuts and revenue sources to pay for reauthorizing the Children's Health Insurance Program when House Republicans are not yet requiring "pay fors" for their tax reform effort.

Health policy watchers who appeared at a conference in New York on Wednesday seemed to be even more uncertain about the future than they were back in January, when the Trump administration was starting to sketch out its plans for replacing the Affordable Care Act.

The big U.S. health insurers that Standard & Poor's Global Ratings rates continue to look fine, in spite of all the commotion in Washington surrounding efforts to change the Affordable Care Act.

An executive at a company that manages behavioral health for millions of Americans says Obama administration officials went too far when they expanded behavioral health benefits design disclosure rules.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may be having problems with its Affordable Care Act program, but its Medicare Advantage program looks good.