Advisor strategies

Even though education has long been considered key for most employee benefits programs, it’s still not easy to engage employees.

It seems most everyone is confused about the Affordable Care Act — and that apparently includes physicians.

New polling reflects what industry insiders have been discussing for months — that insurance should move in the consumer-driven direction.

The decision to delay a key provision of the ACA jolts the health insurance industry

Craig Davidson on leveraging the insurance exchanges when selling to your clients.

Jack Kwicien on what forward-thinking advisers have to do to survive health care reform.

With the ACA's navigator and broker roles finalized, state-run exchanges ramp up their respective training plans. In the process, different philosophies emerge.

Digital Benefit Advisors launches a private exchange in Vermont, with plans to expand to a handful of states within 90 days, a company executive told Employee Benefit Adviser Tuesday.

The share of Americans who work part-time for economic reasons, meaning they can’t find full-time jobs or because their hours have been cut, is 78% higher than in December 2007, when the 18-month recession began.

Premiums for health plans to be sold to the uninsured next year will be less costly than government analysts expected under President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, his administration will report today.

A survey released Wednesday by Aflac shows brokers may be timid about their future. Find out why and more details from the report.

Weighing the dilemma of a potential individual mandate delay may have consequences for brokers.

Despite the ACA’s employer mandate delay, a variety of key provisions still go into effect for employers in January, 2014.

While the decision yesterday by the White House to delay this key provision in ACA was unexpected, what businesses is it really going to effect?

The Obama administration will delay a crucial provision of its signature health care law, giving businesses an extra year to comply with a requirement that they provide their workers with insurance.

The Affordable Care Act will fundamentally change the way health insurance works across the country, and in most cases it will increase cost. What can be done to mitigate the impact?

Enrollment in private health insurance exchanges will likely match the public exchanges by 2017, when about 18% of Americans are expected to purchase their plans through the HIX model, according to Accenture research.

At NAHU’s annual conference this week, brokers said navigators couldn’t begin to replace the roles that they’ve held in their communities for years. The real question remains: what’s the point of navigators at all?

A politically charged morning kicked off the second day of NAHU’s annual meeting in Atlanta Monday with speakers from both sides of the aisle. One Republican policy wonk explained what he thinks is really going on with the ACA.

A broker-friendly bill to combat the financial impact of the medical loss ratio requirements contained in the Affordable Care Act was filed in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday.