Jack Craver

The life insurance industrys assets are growing, but not as fast as in previous years.

While other mainstays of the insurance industry, including life insurance and general health insurance, are struggling for growth, a new study suggests that sales of critical illness policies purchased in anticipation of major health crises, such as cancer, are on the rise.

Its not hard to understand that the wide range of misery inflicted by widespread depression broken families, unproductive workers has serious implications for society as a whole.

Activists in the Centennial State have gotten more than the 100,000 signatures needed to put an initiative on the ballot next year to establish a single-payer universal health care system in the state.

Insurance commissioners across the country are pushing for new rules to force insurers to give their members more options, a response to increasing pressure from consumers unsatisfied with the number of providers offered by plans sold on PPACA insurance marketplaces.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that only 17.5 percent of yogis said they did the activity to address a specific health condition, while 94 percent cited wellness-related reasons.

So far, there appears to be nothing but good news for the four health insurance companies involved in two massive mergers that are currently awaiting approval by federal regulators.

The U.S. uninsured rate reached a new low of 9 percent, or about 28.5 million people, according to the CDC.