HHS Ensures Consumers Get Better Value for Their Health Insurance Dollar

by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 20, 2012 | Insurance Reform

Insurance News Net reports: “WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that consumers will soon begin receiving unprecedented information on the value of their health insurance coverage, and...

Health reform law has small insurers on edge

by Eriksen Insurance | Jan 24, 2012 | Insurance Reform

Peter Frost of The Chicago Tribune reports: “United Security Life and Health Insurance Co. lost money in 2009. The next two years weren’t much better. So when it came time for the small Bedford Park-based insurer to set health care premiums in 2012, it...

Did health reform drive up insurance premiums? Depends on the plan.

by Eriksen Insurance | Oct 3, 2011 | Health Insurance Cost, Insurance Reform, Uncategorized

When a survey earlier this week found that health insurance premiums had risen 9 percent this year, the usual suspects made their usual arguments. “As this survey shows, the president’s promise that his partisan health law would lower costs was just empty rhetoric,”...

Blue Cross parent’s profits drop in second quarter

by Eriksen Insurance | Sep 21, 2011 | Uncategorized

Chicago Business reports: “After surging earlier in the year, profits of the parent of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois dropped sharply during the second quarter, to a still hefty $270 million, as benefits rose and membership shrank. Chicago-based Health...

Appellate Court Says VA Lacks Standing to Challenge ACA

by Eriksen Insurance | Sep 14, 2011 | Insurance Reform

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has vacated a district court’s ruling that a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional. The Fourth Circuit Court ruled that the state of Virginia does not have the standing to challenge the...