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Obesity and diabetes could cost Bermuda $26 million in health insurance claims over the next decade, Kim Wilson warned today. The Minister of Health told the House of Assembly that this figure does not include indirect costs, such as the impact on o...

More than 1,900 employees got their health insurance back last year after employers were investigated by the Bermuda Health Council. This resulted in more than $660,000 being collected in health premiums, according to the health watchdog’s annual re...

The Bermuda Health Council today reminded the public that they have until Friday to complete a survey designed to find out what needs to be included in health insurance policies. Feedback from the Health Services Survey will support the modelling of ...

Accidents resulted in $2.65 million spent on health insurance claims last year, according to a new report. But the Bermuda Health Council said the costs outlined in the Road Traffic Crashes: An Analysis of Health Insurance Claims 2014-16 report do n...

Government healthcare premiums are set for a modest drop for “the first time in many years”, health minister Jeanne Atherden has announced. Opening Public Health Week yesterday, Ms Atherden said that the decline in premiums, just over $4, would come ...

Dear Sir, I read your interview with Walton Brown in yesterday’s paper (March 23) in which he calls on the consumer affairs department to tackle the island’s banks and health insurance providers for “price gouging”. The cost of private health insuran...

More than 100 retired Belco workers have won a legal action against their former employer over an attempt to change their health insurance. While the company sought to move retired staff from its Lighthouse Plan to alternate schemes in early 2015, Pu...

A total of 44 businesses have failed to keep up with health insurance coverage for their employees, according to Bermuda Health Council figures. The BHeC said that more than 200 employees and non-working spouses were affected by firms’ failure to pay...

The Ministry of Health and Seniors has released the Health Insurance Department’s annual report for FutureCare and the Health Insurance Plan. According to the report, which covers the period from April 2015 to March 2016, the number of policyholders ...

When Sabrina Carreon was born at just 24 weeks, she was small enough to fit in her father’s hand. But today the “million-dollar baby” is happy, healthy and celebrating her 2nd birthday. Sabrina’s birth was a challenging one owing to her mother, Kaye,...

Laquita Burrows has been appointed director of the Health Insurance Department. Announcing the move, the Ministry of Health and Seniors said the Department operates and manages the Bermuda Health Insurance Plan, the Future Care Plan, the Mutual Rein...

The Bermuda Health Council will today host a town hall meeting aimed at helping the public understand the island’s healthcare system. The meeting, scheduled to begin at 5.30pm at the Wesley Methodist Church Hall on Church Street, is intended to allow...