http://www.globalsurance.com/blog International Insurance and Healthcare Industry News Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With just one month left until the U.S. Presidential election and growing financial problems in the country, and abroad, it seems like a good time for a quick review of the U.S. insurance landscape. What should be shockingly obvious at this point is that healthcare in America is by ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/down-to-the-wire-the-election-and-your-healthcare-2920.html As the U.N. General Assembly gets started this month, one cause in particular seems to be under the spotlight; staggering global maternal mortality rates that have gone seemingly unnoticed, until now.Since the WHO’s Commission of Social Determinants of Health presented their results on the social factors of global healthcare inequity ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/push-for-better-maternity-care-2820.html AIG: The letters on Manchester United’s football shirts, on buildings dominating skylines in major cities worldwide, and in the past week, on the front covers of the business pages, if not the entire paper. A company with a long and storied history, AIG had posted total losses of $18.5 billion ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/aig-%e2%80%93-what-is-happening-and-how-it-affects-you-2720.html The World Health Organization (WHO) was recently presented with the results of a 3 year study by an advisory body named the Commission of Social Determinants of Health (CSDH). The commission was comprised of policy makers, academics, heads of state and health ministers from around the world including two former ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/global-healthcare-equality-the-reality-2620.html “Since the country’s embrace of the reform and opening-up policy, the development of China’s insurance industry has held the attention of the world,” said the China Insurance Regulatory Commission in 2006. China is indeed a huge and promising market for health insurance. But how does health insurance in ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/the-health-insurance-market-in-china-and-the-challenges-it-faces-2520.html With the US presidential election around the corner, one of the issues getting the most media attention is the candidates’ differing stances on healthcare. Everyone agrees that something needs to be done about the rising costs of healthcare in the US to the federal and state government and ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/a-few-reasons-for-the-cost-of-healthcare-in-the-us-and-will-they-be-addressed-2420.html It seems that in the current climate of medical inflation many countries around the world are growing increasingly concerned with the ability of visitors to use, and perhaps even abuse, the medical facilities and hospitals in their destination. One of the first places in the world to institute restrictions ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/health-insurance-reforms-abound-2320.html Recently, many major American insurers have looked to international markets for new customers.  Thus far, major insurers have primarily targeted the booming expatriate market as their source for international customers, often times establishing field offices to better serve them.  A prime example of this trend is in China, ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/us-health-insurers-moving-into-china-2220.html The Health Insurance Industry Convention is currently well underway in San Francisco this week and even though its only been one day record numbers of protesters are showing up to rally against the current healthcare system in the USA. This is occurring in the same week as the American ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/ama-hands-out-health-insurance-report-cards-2120.html You know it’s going to be a bad day in the healthcare industry when the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Bernard S. Bernanke, is predicting a massive rise in the cost of healthcare in the USA unless some serious measures to tackle the problem are introduced. At the same ... http://www.globalsurance.com/blog/the-way-forward-2020.html