Topic: Karen Ignagni
After rising only 3 percent in 2010, health care premiums for family coverage jumped an average of 9 percent this year, according to an annual...
Insurers around the country are blaming new requirements under health system reform for rising premiums, telling regulators and policyholders that new mandates will force them to charge more for coverage than they would otherwise.. The Obama administration, which maintains that health system ...
There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases. But it's actually from a letter sent last Thursday from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans ...
HHS Secretary Sebelius vows 'zero tolerance' for insurers blaming premium hikes on health lawPresident Barack Obama's top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won't tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law."There ...
It's been kind of a roller-coaster week for U.S. parents of children with the kind of special needs that insurers won't touch. But insurance companies weren't so sure about that, with the New York Times reporting that "Insurers ...
If you can't beat them, join them.After nearly a year battling President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats over the health care overhaul, the insurance industry says it won't block the administration's efforts to fix a potentially embarrassing glitch ...
And speaking of the health-overhaul proposals (see previous post), we note an armful of stories today dealing with what has become a third-rail issue - the rates at which premiums are going up for individual health plans.. There matters stood pretty much unresolved ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health insurance lobbyists are pushing lawmakers to eliminate caps on profit margins and delay a hefty, industry-wide tax set to start in 2011 under the massive healthcare reform legislation being finalized in Congress.Health insurers, which include companies such as ...
It was my firsthand experience, along with the everyday health issues that all families face, that made me realize that even though the U.S. has some of the best doctors in the world, America's health care system is broken and ...
Last month Karen Ignagni held a conference call with reporters to announce the release of a new study commissioned by her lobby, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Ignagni and her lobby are unused to being on the losing side of the ...
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AHIP's Karen Ignagni discusses health care reform with Dr ...2009-08-14
