Allison Bell is the insurance editor at ThinkAdvisor and now focuses mainly on writing about life insurance, annuities and individual health insurance. She has been covering health insurance long enough to own a copy of the HIPAA conference report. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Before she came to ALM, she covered banking for the Business Journal of Charlotte.