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The legislation meant to cut through the red tape of state-by-state insurance broker licensing is stalled in the Senate as a standalone bill, but has been attached to another bill up for vote soon.

Columnist Mel Schlesinger points out that with so many early renewals last year, growing your business early this year will take extra effort.

Columnist Nelson Griswold on what the voluntary sales space is doing wrong and how to fix it.

Karen Winters, a broker at San Diego-based Benefit Pro Insurance Services, Inc., works non-stop on ACA enrollment.

Three million people have enrolled in private health plans offered through the Obamacare insurance exchanges, U.S. officials said.

New business unit consolidates recently acquired Extend Health, Liazon and others to help employers deliver health benefits to employees, company says.

A Missouri law requiring licenses for counselors who help consumers find health insurance on Affordable Care Act exchanges was temporarily blocked by a U.S. judge, setting back a measure by a state hostile to the federal health care overhaul statute.

As a result of the continued uncertainty of Affordable Care Act’s impact, Moody’s changed the outlook for U.S. health insurers to negative from stable.

Excepted benefits are specified limited scope health benefits that are exempt or excepted from the insurance market reform provisions of the Affordable Care Act and the health insurance requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1986, known as HIPAA.

A leading private exchange operator’s satisfaction survey shows that employees who shopped online for their health insurance in 2013 have a surprisingly high understanding of, and appreciation for, the value of this new sophisticated marketplace.