House Bill 6710, "An Act Concerning Association Health Plans," could provide a transformational benefit for Connecticut small businesses. The bill would allow multiple small businesses to buy insurance for their employees together as a single entity instead of each negotiating individually.
Priority Health nearly tripled earnings in 2022, although how that may affect upcoming rate proposals for next year is unclear for now. The Grand Raids-based health plan recorded $209.9 million in net income for the year across all product lines.
State legislators have come up with an agreement on expanding Medicaid. While health care leaders we spoke with said this could be a plus for thousands of North Carolinians, they said it can also help in other areas.
Given that so much of the increase in worker compensation during the past 2 decades has been consumed by health insurance costs, it is important to ask whether the value of health insurance has increased during this period.
Taxpayers are losing more than $100 billion a year to Medicare and Medicaid fraud, according to estimates from the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association.