Life, disability, and long-term-care insurance providers* have been denying policies to people on pre-exposure prophylaxis, according to a New York Times report. PrEP, as the antiretroviral regimen is known, is highly effective in preventing HIV negative people from contracting the disease. There is some discussion as…
Since 1991 when law professor Anita Hill accused her former boss and then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, the sale of employment practices liability insurance (EPLI)—which covers sexual harassment and racial discrimination claims against the workplace—has been steadily on the rise.
Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump has loudly and repeatedly spelled out his astonishing desire to “let Obamacare fail,” never quite seeming to understand the profound impact that would likely have on insurance markets, the exact people who voted for him, and—despite his repeated insistence that Democrats…
Oh good! Health secretary Tom Price has offered a comforting endorsement of the GOP’s plan to replace Obamacare. Take heart, for he believes “firmly” that “nobody will be worse off financially” under the new—bleak—provisions.
The price of the EpiPen 2-Pak, which is used to inject life-saving epinephrine into people having severe allergic reactions, has been steadily rising since it was acquired by Mylan in 2007—it was once $100 for a pair and now costs $600.
Aetna is currently in a legal battle over it’s attempted take over of Humana, which the U.S. Justice Department says would violate anti-trust laws. In the midst of that, they’ve also decided to cut ties with the Affordable Care Act in 68.9 percent of the counties where that health coverage is offered. It’s a big year…
Another day, another endless lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate. Court after court has ruled that the Obama administration has found an acceptable workaround for nonprofit religious organizations who don’t want to provide birth control coverage to their employees. Nonetheless, yet…
The Supreme Court has smacked down a major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, one that could have caused millions of Americans to lose health insurance coverage. In a 6-3 decision, they ruled against the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, who argued that the federal government couldn’t provide subsidies for health…
A series of truly terrible legislative efforts in Texas are targeting women, gay adults, and gay children. Like, even more than usual. Really, notably, unusually bad, even for a state that prides itself on extreme levels of this sort of badness.
California state insurance officials have made quite the leap in women's reproductive rights, dictating that insurance companies cannot sell group plans that exclude abortion and reversing a previous decision that allowed two Catholic universities to exclude elective abortions from their health care plans.
Today, a Canadian underwear company announced that certain customers will now qualify for $50,000 worth of free penis insurance.
Yesterday, Congressman and world's foremost authority on being a hateread made flesh Michele Bachmann appeared on CNN to discuss her favorite topic, "Obama Bad. More like Nobama (sits back crossing arms, raises eyebrows smugly)." During her appearance opposite strategist Paul Begala, she claimed that thanks to Obama…
The Obama administration will announce a new regulation Friday that would require insurance companies to treat mental health and substance abuse coverage the same way they cover physical ailments. A big deal!
TIME should get it over with and change its name to TROL magazine already, because 1- seriously, that's all they do now, and 2- both TIME and TROL work as knuckle tats, and I think knuckle tat-ability should be considered more frequently in the naming of things.
Under what circumstances do you think you'd be induced to cheer (in a restrained way, no doubt) for the insidious insurance company that Roy Scheider runs in The Rainmaker? A federal judge may have (indirectly) answered that very tangential question for you on Friday by allaying certain insurance providers' fears and…
Leave it to anti-choice politicians to make the impossible happen: a story in which a gargantuan insurance company comes off as the good guy. The Missouri Department of Insurance is charging Aetna Life Insurance Co $1.5 million — its largest fine in state history — for, among other things, providing coverage for…
Conservative pundits claim that the Affordable Care Act will deal a blow to freedom, to capitalism, to the economy, and probably to the baby Jesus and kittens, for good measure. But one traditionally conservative institution that's about to take a beating isn't getting much ink: marriage. Any way you slice it, the…
For years, we've been hearing from everyone about our rapidly dwindling fertility, about how we're waiting too long, how we're running out of options, and on and on. But there wasn't much talk about what we should do about it—other than panic, of course. Well, now suddenly egg freezing is all we've got on our…
Marriage must be pretty great, considering it's the goal of nearly everyone in every romantic comedy ever written. Except then sitcoms teach us that, in fact, marriage is a huge drag that only leads to a lifetime of bickering and misery. So, which is it? Well, kind of both, according to a new study. Researchers found…
Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio has made the very interesting choice to stop offering health insurance coverage to its students come this fall rather than have to comply with the federal mandate that says its insurance plan must provide free contraception. The university said in a statement,
