Georgia will become the first state to permit insurance companies licensed in the state to sell health policies offered in other states to Georgia residents.

A Maryland state senator is taking insurance companies to task for their opposition to a bill raising the dependent age of adult children, saying companies need to get more actively involved in decreasing the number of uninsured state residents.

Maryland is poised to join 30 other states in extending dependent coverage to cover adult children under their parents’ health plans, a move one state delegate, who is also a health insurance agent, calls “a no-brainer.”

The push is on in Maryland to have a universal health care road map ready to use when the Obama Administration and Capitol Hill finalize the direction of their expansive …  Read →