Premiums and Benefits news and information

Having trouble logging in to healthcare.gov? Have no fear. In response to opening-day technical glitches and heavy traffic to its insurance marketplace website, HHS posted data Tuesday afternoon showing available plans and premiums across the 36 states with federally facilitated insurance...
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The Exxon Mobil Corporation, which has drawn much criticism for policies related to its gay and lesbian workers, said on Friday that it would extend health insurance and other employee benefits to married same-sex couples effective Oct. 1.
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Cigarette makers' growing move into electronic cigarettes is facing new resistance from large employers.
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The University of Virginia last week joined the small but fast-growing cohort of major employers making dramatic changes to their healthcare plans for 2014, which many are blaming on rising healthcare costs and the implementation of the
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With the October 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating.Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost way more. It depends who you ask.
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Newly approved rates for health plans that will be sold in the individual market through Maryland's new health benefit exchange will have some of the lowest costs among the 12 states that have either proposed or approved rates, the state's insurance commissioner said Friday.
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U.S. Supreme Court's decision to recognize same-sex marriages in at least 13 states will have effects on families' insurance status, healthcare taxes and benefits for serving the federal government.
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Remember all of those dire warnings that the health reform law would lead to drastic increases in premiums for 2014? Recent rate filings indicate that's not happening.
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Visits to the doctor and pharmacy dropped among workers whose employer switched their health insurance to a high-deductible plan with a health savings account, a newly released Health Affairs study found.
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While most of the attention on the reform law has been on providing coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, workers with employer-paid insurance are also beginning to feel the effects.
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