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There is a big difference between price and cost when it comes to disability insurance, writes The Standard's Steve Brady.

More people signed up for Obamacare health plans in the first two days of December than in all of October after the U.S. government rehabilitated its error-prone insurance-exchange website.

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The federal agency in charge of exchanges is communicating with brokers about technology improvements, but brokers say they haven’t heard much of anything, yet.

In an environment of rapidly rising premiums and deductibles, non-traditional products and services help mitigate health care costs, promote educated consumerism, and reduce out-of-pocket medical expenses for the insured, uninsured and under-insured.

Blogger Rob Lieblein points out that about 70% of insurance agencies don’t have a succession plan and says that it’s not as easy and fast a process as most brokers think.

Employers continue to see a rise in health insurance costs. Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage reached $16,351 in 2013, up 4% from last year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) 2013 Employer Health Benefits Survey. So how can employers work to control these costs? A key success factor in reducing health insurance costs is the leadership’s commitment to this strategy. Can you find top-down leadership commitment to a long-term program…

Dave Albertson, the editorial director of SourceMedia’s Healthcare Group, died on Sunday, November 24, from heart disease.

To help make the most of open enrollment season and position yourself as a trusted resource for your roster of HR managers, The Standard's John West shares a few focus areas to help strengthen your clients’ overall benefits health.

President Barack Obama plans to highlight the 2010 health care law’s benefits at a White House event Tuesday that kicks off a three-week campaign to regain support for a program marred by a troubled implementation.