KOLKATA: The general insurance industry is slated to touch Rs 50,000 crore premium income in the next five years against Rs 28,130 crore achieved in 2007-08. In 2008-09 — the first full year of the detariffed regime — state-owned general Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major U.S. health insurers on Thursday pitched several clinical and payment policy changes, adding their voice to a growing debate over reforming the nation’s costly and often inefficient health care system. America’s Health Read More

The new medical insurance system has lowered the amount of premium payments for 70 percent of households with at least one person aged 75 or older, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey of selected municipal governments. The survey concerned people Read More

A FLIGHT from private health cover would hit the public system hard, with private hospital admissions growing fast, figures show. The number of private hospital treatments grew by 5.1 per cent last year, while those in the public sector grew by 3.3 Read More

Washington A framework for policies that would enable all Americans to have access to affordable health insurance coverage was released today by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The updated position paper, Achieving Affordable Health Read More

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