individual insurance policies

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Several health insurers say they will stop selling new child-only individual insurance policies as they face a health care reform provision that will prevent them from excluding children with potentially costly pre-existing conditions....

This article by Jillian Berman, was published in the July 30, 2010 issue of USA TODAY.

As Alan Grunberg neared 50, he knew he was going to need a colonoscopy, so the Chicago-based Realtor began shopping around to try and find the best place to get the procedure done.

Two recent articles featured more about gravity-defying compensation given to the leaders of not-for-profit health care organizations.

We had recently posted about how the CEO of one not-for-profit health care insurer rose while the organization's revenue and enrollment fell.

Similarly, from the Detroit News,

We just posted about the latest travails of the UnitedHealth Group, a for-profit managed care organization founded by one of the early advocates of managed care as the cure for health care problems.

Lately, the company has been better known for the lavish compensation it gave its former CEO.

More than two years ago, we noted that Health Net Inc,, the large US health insurer/ for-profit managed care organization, had settled a class-action lawsuit brought by California physicians under the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) standard.