National Alliance

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  America's mental health care crisis: A story in numbers

  By Bill Coffin  |  April 29, 2013

  One in four adult Americans — nearly 58 million — experience a mental health disorder in any given year. How much of the overall cost burden is the insurance industry carrying?

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  Alzheimer's caregivers beg for action

  By Allison Bell  |  April 29, 2013

  An advisory council sets about updating a plan for attacking the disease.

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  More states license CO-OPs

  By Allison Bell  |  April 15, 2013

  States that have acted on member-owned plan filings include Kentucky, New Mexico and Wisconsin.

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  Insurers lose unclaimed property case in Kentucky

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  April 4, 2013

  "The traditional industry practice allows insurance companies to stick their heads in the sand and ignore publicly available data," said the judge in his decision.

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  The darkness within

  By Bill Coffin  |  February 27, 2013

  As the nation asks what can be done about a recent rash of mass shootings, the health insurance industry is quietly looking the other way.

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  On the Third Hand: CO-OPs

  By Allison Bell  |  January 23, 2013

  Maybe Congress has created a mean-spirited but useful experiment.

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  CO-OP group blasts cliff deal funding cuts

  By Allison Bell  |  January 3, 2013

  Organizers say the big health insurers want to squeeze out new competition.

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  Fiscal cliff bill slams CO-OPs, creates LTC panel

  By Allison Bell  |  January 1, 2013

  The H.R. 8 LTC commission would include representatives from long-term care insurers.

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  PPACA plan group names first executive director

  By Allison Bell  |  December 14, 2012

  CO-OP organizers tap Jan VanRiper, a former Montana insurance regulator.

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  Financial Planning: Have You Had Your Check-up?

  By Wendy Boglioli  |  July 30, 2012

  You need to floss, exercise ... and ask about your clients' future health and long-term care costs, for your own good as well as theirs.