The Nevada Division of Insurance addresses health care insurance scams through an education awareness and advertising campaign on TV and on Web site banners reminding consumers to “check before writing a check.”
The objective of the campaign is to educate Nevada consumers and small businesses about sham health insurance policies and products including dreaded disease policies, discount cards and programs, hospital indemnity programs, stacked policies and association or faith-based health sharing. Read More...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a great unknown about Sen. John McCain's health plan: How many employers would drop insurance coverage for their workers because of his tax policies?

The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting has proposed that everyone buying health insurance get a refundable tax credit, $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families. At the same time, he would treat employer contributions toward health insurance like income, meaning workers would have to pay income, but not payroll, taxes on it. Read More...

The new medical insurance system for people aged 75 or older has been severely criticized.

In addition to its apparently thoughtless name--literally, "a health insurance system for people in the latter stage of their advanced age"--the system lacks due consideration to its subscribers in many respects. Although it is a major systemic change for people aged 75 or older, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry and local governments have failed to sufficiently prepare for the new system and adequately explain the nature of it to the public. Read More...