WASHINGTON — Most young Americans want any health care overhaul under President Donald Trump to look a lot like the Affordable Care Act signed into law by his predecessor, President Barack Obama. But there’s one big exception: A majority of young Americans dislike “Obamacare’s” requirement that all Americans buy insurance or pay a fine. A [...]
Why worry about buying health insurance when President-elect Donald Trump plans to dump the requirement that most Americans get coverage? For the same reason you should always worry about health insurance: Little health problems can easily turn into big bills without it. “The real risk is something will happen to you, and you won’t be [...]
As state lawmakers returned to the people’s business post-election last week, members of the House Insurance Committee heard testimony challenging provisions of a bill to strike an insurer’s limitations on vision care services. Representatives from the state’s Union Benefits Trust, the Ohio Association of Health Plans, and the National Association of Vision Care Plans characterized [...]
Millions of Americans are finding out this month that the price of their health insurance is going up next year — as it did this year, last year, and most of the years before that. And it’s not just that the price is going up, it’s that it goes up faster than wages and inflation, [...]
WASHINGTON — The nation’s progress in getting more people covered by health insurance slowed significantly this year, the government confirmed this week in a report that tempers a historic achievement of the Obama administration. About 1.3 million fewer people were uninsured the first three months of this year, driving the uninsured rate to a record [...]
At the peak of the summer travel season, the Ohio Department of Insurance is reminding Ohioans who participate in nontraditional, sharing enterprises, such as Airbnb and Uber, to keep in mind protection of their property and interests while enjoying the convenience afforded by these services. Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, who also serves as department director, [...]
WASHINGTON — The nation’s health care tab this year is expected to surpass $10,000 per person for the first time, the government said. The new peak means the Obama administration will pass the problem of high health care costs on to its successor. The report from number crunchers at the Department of Health and Human [...]