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New health insurance data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the uninsured rate has dropped in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of AIG, has agreed to pay $430,000 to settle allegations it sold unauthorized health insurance to consumers in Massachusetts, according to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.

Oscar Health, the young health insurance startup company based in New York, is growing up fast. Google Capital, Google's growth equity fund, has invested $32.5 million in the company, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

The American Medical Association published its most recent edition of Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets. The study contains 2013 data from 50 states, including Washington D.C., and 388 metropolitan areas.

A new fully integrated healthcare plan available to self-funded employers, ACOs and Taft-Hartley organizations across the country recently launched.

The key credit metrics of nine publicly traded health insurance and managed care companies improved in the first half of 2015 compared with the same period of the year prior, according to a recent report by Fitch Ratings.

An agency controlled by Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) is no longer paying healthcare claims for at least 146,000 state workers, retirees and their families receiving coverage through self-insured plans, according to a report from The State Journal-Register.

This year 423,000 people lost coverage under the Affordable Care Act due to immigration and citizenship issues, nearly four times as many as last year, according to the Associated Press.

American Hospital Association President and CEO Rick Pollack outlined a strong distinction between the mergers taking place in the hospital and health system industry and the consolidation proposed in the health insurance industry.

The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.