eHealth announced Monday its offering individual and family health insurance plans from Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Texas and Oklahoma through the companys primary retail website, www.ehealthinsurance.com

Six Southern California communities have each received a $1 million grant from Kaiser Permanente Southern California to encourage people in these HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) Zones to eat better and become more physically active as part of daily life.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware offers suggestions for optimizing a health care budget this year.

Good news for brokers looking to score some voluntary sales: Only 39 percent of U.S. households recall having an opportunity to buy life insurance in the past two years, says a LIMRA study.

More than half of Americans say the Supreme Court should rule that the health overhaul laws requirement to have health insurance or pay a fine is unconstitutional, a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds.

TruHearing, a medical health organization that offers discounted hearing aids, will now offer its discount hearing services to VSP Vision Care members. VSP Vision Care is the largest not-for-profit vision benefits and services company in the United States.

Though its defined his presidency, Barack Obama made little mention of his massive health reform law in his hour-plus State of the Union Address. Insteadand not surprisinglyhe diverted attention to the good hes done, and blamed the bad on everyone else.

For the more than 12 million beneficiaries enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, resolving to make the most of their coverage could result in improved health and more money in their pockets in 2012.