by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 7, 2011 | Heath Care Costs
AARP reports: The first generic version of the world’s top-selling drug, the cholesterol-lowering Lipitor, is due to come on the market Dec. 1. Drug market analysts have long speculated on the strategies Lipitor’s manufacturer, Pfizer, might use to hold on...
by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 7, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Bloomburg reports: “Over the next decade, we are likely to see a shift in health insurance in the U.S.: So-called defined-contribution plans will gradually take over the market, shifting the residual risk of incurring high health-care costs from employers to...
by Eriksen Insurance | Nov 28, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Small Business Trends reports: “Falls Church, VA (Press Release – November 23, 2011) – A new survey by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) shows the federal health care law’s medical loss ratio (MLR) provision is...
by Eriksen Insurance | Nov 28, 2011 | Insurance Reform
Gather.com reports: “Next year, one of the central tenets of the health care reform law–the individual mandate–will either be upheld or overturned by the Supreme Court. The Affordable Care Act has been deeply partisan since it first came into...
by Eriksen Insurance | Nov 22, 2011 | Heath Care Costs, Insurance Reform
Report shows health care costs outpaces income growth Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward their insurance increased by 63 percent as businesses required...
