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By Arthur D. Postal |
March 15, 2012
Health-exchange regulations finalized by the Obama administration March 12 envision allowing agents, brokers and private companies to sell coverage on the exchange to individuals and employers through privately run Web sites.
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By Arthur D. Postal |
March 13, 2012
Health exchange regulations finalized by the Obama administration envision allowing agents, brokers and private companies, to sell coverage on the exchange to individuals and employers through privately-run websites
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 27, 2012
Revised legislation narrowing the proposed exemption of agent commissions from the healthcare reform law’s Medical Loss Ratio is being introduced in the Senate.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 5, 2011
Independent insurance agents and healthcare agents say they will continue to pursue their goal of a medical loss ratio exemption despite a recent rejection of their request by the Department of Health and Human Services
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 14, 2011
Whether the insurance industry will have certainty about the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is now in the hands of the U.S. Senate.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 13, 2011
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has decided an indirect, behind-the-scenes approach to reducing the strain on health insurance agents through the medical loss ratio provision will be most effective
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 1, 2011
A National Association of Insurance Commissioners task force said it will support House legislation that would remove agent commissions from the medical loss ratio.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 16, 2011
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Va., called out the National Association of Health Underwriters and Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, saying their lobbying for agent exemptions from the medical loss ratio “will cost American consumers $1 billion in benefits.”
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 23, 2011
Funding for implementing the medical loss ratio provision of the health care reform law would be eliminated for the remainder of this fiscal year under the budget passed by the House last Saturday.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 21, 2011
The role that insurance agents play in the health marketplace in 2014 and beyond will likely be left up to the states, said Joel Ario, head of the insurance exchange bureau of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
