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Craig Davidson on how doing the right thing as a fiduciary sometimes means losing a fight with a client, or even getting fired.

The choices that benefits professionals make now about the ACA are crucial.

Countless statistics show this demographic is woefully under-insured.

Computer servers hosting a key piece of Obamacare’s insurance enrollment program fails Sunday, leaving federal and independent state exchanges unable to provide most services.

Despite a CMS report Friday that nearly half of all applications completed so far are from the federally-run state exchanges, brokers on the front lines have a different perspective.

Daily unique visitors to Healthcare.gov have steadily and dramatically declined since the site’s launch, according to data from Internet analytics company comScore.

Just how will the fight in Congress over health exchange website glitches pan out? EBA spoke with former Capitol Hill staffer Drew Crouch, now director of government relations at Buck Consultants, about potential Republican strategies — and if tax reform that would impact employee benefits might still be on the table for this year.

The state-run exchanges in Washington and Kentucky have received positive press about their websites working in comparison to the federal, but brokers haven’t had much hand in the success.

Acknowledging Thursday that the exchange system “wasn’t tested enough,” CMS’ director of communications responded to issues brought up by government contractors earlier in the day on Capitol Hill.

CGI Group, lead software developer for the 36 federally-run exchanges, acknowledges problems in Thursday's congressional hearing on healthcare.gov glitches, but asserts that "it will improve," and people will be able to enroll before penalties kick in.