High-risk pools play an important role in the health care system. They are state-created, nonprofit associations that offer comprehensive health insurance benefits to individuals with pre-existing ...

During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican nominee, vowed to protect health insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions while also doubling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secretary of State David Scanlan has come out against legislation that would permit the state’s four risk management pools, which ...

The new risk pools were set up this year to cover patients with high-cost pre-existing conditions, such as cancer, who leave hospitals and other providers stuck with huge unpaid bills. Such patients ...

The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled the state auditor does not have the authority to investigate an insurance risk pool for 75 counties as well as hundreds of other cities and taxpayer funded local ...

High-risk insurance pools set up in many states for individuals with pre-existing and chronic conditions were originally intended to shift to the healthcare law’s insurance exchanges gradually. But a ...

Managing Editor’s note: In August 2001, a report titled “Insuring the Uninsurable: An Overview of State High-Risk Health Insurance Pools,” written by Lori Achman and Deborah Chollet of Mathematica ...