Healthcare

Today’s workforce expects more than the traditional healthcare and retirement options and the usual communications programs.

Despite the projected increase in healthcare expenses, clients can expect their total living costs to decline after they retire, as they will owe lower or no income taxes and have fewer items on their budget.

Maximum ROI on the service comes from strong communication, detailed data tracking and offering a broad range of care option

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System is set to vote next week on cutting benefits for a small group of retirees in what would be the second such move in the last four months.

The proposed bill cuts taxes for wealthy people, ends Medicaid as we know it to help pay for those tax cuts, reduces the number of Americans who can afford health insurance, and angers such a wide variety of voting constituencies that it is effectively dead on arrival, writes Bloomberg Gadfly Columnist Max Nisen.

The Insured Retirement Institute also would like to preserve the current tax treatment for post-work savings.

Benefit executives should have more money to invest in their health insurance offerings as Congress pushes back the Cadillac tax and cuts other ACA taxes.

As clients’ go-to resource, advisers should provide employers with fact-based analysis of what is and is not included in ACA replacement bill, says consultant Wendy Keneipp.

The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.

The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.