Yes and no. Traditionally health insurance is regulated at the state level. The recent healthcare legislation is adding federal regulations. Additionally, there are some federal regulations that have been around for a while like Cobra and HIPPA.
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About 300,000 people are employed by the health insurance industry.
Massage Therapy is considered part of the Health Industry, even as an alternative health. They follow the same regulations as doctors, chiropractors and nurses, called the RHPA (regulated health practitioner's act).
(OSHA) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Not always, Medicare is only one of the Health Insurance systems covering American Seniors. The most commonly used is Medicaid. This is a federally funded Health Insurance given to low income families, seniors, and the disabled.
Most health insurance is regulated on the state level. The federal government has several laws that protect Americans and help to assure availability and affordability of health insurance coverage.
According to the Insurance Information Institute there were 1,398 life, health and medical insurers and re-insurers in 2011. http://www.iii.org/facts_statistics/industry-overview.html
Tampa, Florida-based Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is the largest individual life, accident, and health insurance company in the United States, with assets of $193 billion in 2002.
More than 1,000 companies provided accident and health insurance in the United States in the early 2000s, writing roughly $96 billion in premiums.
The 'Mail Handlers Health Insurance' was first established in the year 1966. It has been an important company perk for employees in the mail industry since.
health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over, those of any age that have end stage renal disease or certain other disabilities such as ALS