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Insurance Podcast Roundup – Week of January 16, 2012

The Insurance Podcast Roundup is updated every week with brand new episodes of podcasts that focus on insurance related topics. This week, there are podcasts involving Express Scripts, demolished buildings, homeowners insurance rates, and spending on health insurance. NPR has an episode of “All Things Considered” that was released on January 9, 2012. This episode is called “Why Millions of Prescriptions Will No Longer Be Filled at Walgreens”. This episode focuses on why negotiations broke down between Walgreens and Express Scripts, and how this has affected people who were used to filling out their prescriptions at Walgreens (and having their … Continue reading →

Insurance Blog Week in Review – January 8-14, 2012

In a typical week, the Insurance blog at Families.com will have fourteen different articles appear on it. It can be easy to miss something that you really should read about. Every week, I do an Insurance Blog Week in Review, to help you “ketchup” about everything that has hit the blog in the past seven days. ACLU Fights Michigan Domestic Partner Health Insurance Ban Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed a law that bans public entities from providing health insurance coverage to the same-sex domestic partners of employees. The ACLU feels that this law serves no purpose except to discriminate against … Continue reading →

Texas Wants to Delay Insurance Rebate Plan

Starting this year, health insurance companies who fail to appropriately meet their medical loss ratio will have to give their customers a rebate. Texas is one of sixteen states that wants to delay having to actually pay out on rebates. The state has asked the federal government for permission to delay the rebate plan. The medical loss ratio is one of the health reform laws that comes from the Affordable Care Act. It was designed to protect consumers. Previous to this law, some health insurance companies were taking the money that they got from premiums, and spending the majority of … Continue reading →