Monthly Archives: August 2010

Several provisions in the new health care reform law will begin to take effect next month.  More changes will take place over the next three years, leading up the biggest changes in 2014, when all individual policies will have to be guaranteed issue, and everyone will be required to have health insurance. The only way […]

Throughout this year, the Independence Institute has been working to get a measure on the ballot in Colorado to block the health care reform legislation that would require everyone to have health insurance starting in 2014.  Yesterday, the Colorado Secretary of State confirmed that the amendment supporters have gathered enough signatures to get the measure […]

Overall Rank: 8 Strengths: •Low prevalence of obesity •Low levels of air pollution •Low rate of preventable hospitalizations •Low rates of cancer deaths and cardiovascular deaths Challenges: •High geographic disparity within the state •High rate of uninsured population Significant Changes: • In the past year, per capita public health funding increased by 19% • In […]

Insurers, the young, the uninsured and lawmakers are just a few of the groups sorting out what the implementation of health reform means for them as details emerge on changes to the system. The New York Times: Insurers are fighting over the details of how much of the premiums they collect they must spend on […]

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a federation of 39 separate health insurance organizations and companies in the United States. Combined, they directly or indirectly provide health insurance to over 100 million Americans.[3] The history of Blue Cross dates back to 1929, while the history of Blue Shield dates to 1939. The Blue […]

Mountain Insurance Brokers is starting from A and working to Z, so you can meet the carriers that make selling insurance possible. Providing insurance for 157 years and counting Founded in 1853 in Hartford, Connecticut, Aetna is one of the nation’s leading providers of health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, and disability insurance, and employee […]

Braintree, MA. – (August 9, 2010) U.S. application activity for individually underwritten life insurance declined -3.9% in July year-over-year, all ages combined, according to theMIB Life Index (SM). July marks the second consecutive month of declining application activity in a year mixed with monthly gains and losses. Year-to-date U.S. application activity is off less than […]