By Sheri Porter http://www.aafp.org America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP, recently released a health care reform proposal that it says could reduce America’s total health care expenditures by $145 billion by the year 2015, but some groups have problems with the proposal’s details. “A Shared Responsibility: Advancing Toward a More Accessible, Safe, and Affordable Health Care […]

BUSINESS WIRE http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/ A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the issuer credit rating (ICR) to ‘bbb+’ from ‘bbb’ for the Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine (MMIC) and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of B++ (Good). The outlook on both ratings is stable. The ratings reflect MMIC’s excellent risk-adjusted capitalization, recent favorable operating earnings, leadership […]

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By Jeffrey Krasner Come this fall, members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts will be able to go online to look up their healthcare claims and some medical records, which the insurer says will help patients manage their medical care and have more productive discussions with doctors. The feature is being offered through […]

By DIANE LEVICK http://www.courant.com Reform is needed to fix the crisis of the uninsured, but it requires a joint effort of government and the private sector and should preserve the nation’s employer-based health insurance system, Aetna Chief Executive Ronald A. Williams told a congressional panel Tuesday. Changes in the $2.2 trillion U.S. health care system […]

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