Category Archives: Insurance

Health Insurance Price Controls in MA?

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner will be taking a more active role in controlling the cost to small businesses of providing health insurance to their employees.
Insurance companies will be required to provide the Commissioner advance notice of rate increases, and the Commissioner will reject increases which are “unreasonable or excessive.”
Just another skirmish in the never-ending war [...]

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Health insurance getting (a little) cheaper for Mass. small businesses?

Monday, January 18, 2010

The smallest of the small businesses–those that employ between one and five people, and currently are getting health insurance through the Small Business Service Bureau–will soon be saving a little money on their employees’ health insurance.
The Boston Globe reports that the Health Connector will be taking over administration of the program from the Small Business [...]

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