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Aetna and other insurers that initially fought President Obama’s health care overhaul are reversing course and supporting the effort by funding a group planning to spend $100 million to help the uninsured get coverage.

Results from Towers Watson’s recent Global Workforce Study that shows almost half of U.S. workers (49%) are willing to trade paid time off and future career advancement opportunities for guaranteed retirement benefits. Why? Do employees think a secure retirement largely is out of their control?

The Supreme Court gave a university founded by Jerry Falwell a new chance to argue in a lower court that President Obama’s health care law doesn’t give religious objectors a broad enough exemption.

If you are a small business owner and the reason you are giving your customers to buy from you is price, EBA Contributor Kevin Trokey strongly encourages you to start looking for another reason. In this world of big box stores and Internet shopping, small businesses just can’t compete on price.

When was the last time you took a good, introspective look at your client base and thought about saying goodbye to a client? For EBA Blogger Beverly Beattie, it’s important to give clients tremendous value and for my clients to know they are fully receiving it.

HHS outlines various conditions and services insurers must cover, and rules to let companies expand employee wellness programs in new proposed regulations of the ACA posted Tuesday.

States received an extra month from the Obama administration to decide whether to build online marketplaces for medical insurance after Republican governors pressed their resistant to the president’s health care law.

Access to quality life insurance for middle and lower income families has disappeared over the past 10 to 20 years. A life insurance agent simply cannot make lower income American’s a primary market and be financially successful, says blogger Tinker Kelly. But how can you overcome that?

Rumor has it that the Department of Labor recently hired a lot of new field auditors, which could only mean one thing — more audits. Which Principal Financial's Aaron Friedman says means it is safe to say that more 403(b) plans will be put on the firing line as well. Just what we need, right? Well, a little work now and some knowledge may help, so keep reading.