President Barack Obama is set to announce new health insurance benefits for consumers to mark the first 90 days since he signed landmark legislation to expand coverage.

Health insurance worries keep rising WASHINGTON ? The number of Americans worried about losing their current health care coverage keeps rising, even as President Barack Obama and a Democrat-led Congress strive to extend society’s safety net to cover the uninsured, a new poll has found. The growing levels of insurance insecurity are reflected in the latest monthly [...]

I’m not here to defend insurance companies. But in this instance, I have to ask, what the hell do you expect? At this point they are trying to insure their own survival! I received this in my e-mail: From the FEE blog: [no link provided] The health-insurance lobbyist complains that under the proposed healthcare overhaul the penalties on individuals who don’t buy coverage would be too mild and would encourage people to wait until they are sick before buying a policy — at which point

Dems Scramble After Warning From Health InsurersGotta deal with the truth now, Mr. O.Oct 12, 6:17 PM (ET)By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR / My Way AP NEWSWASHINGTON (AP) – Insurance companies aren’t playing nice any more.Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine talks to reporters outside of the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Senate Majority Leader of Nev. announced Thursday that the Finance Committee will vote next week on the health care bill

Following a heady day of Nobel Peace Prize news, President Barack Obama's routine address this morning got back to the nuts and bolts of governing. Once again, as he has numerous times in past weeks, he focused the talk on health care reform, with this week's theme focusing on bipartisan consensus gelling to change the status quo. Gathering momentum, the president proclaimed, is behind what he called the historic movement to bring real, meaningful health insurance reform to the American p