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Despite eligibility for cost-sharing reductions, more than 2 million public exchange enrollees did not select eligible plans.

Increasing merger and acquisition activity in the health insurance industry continues to decrease market competition and benefit experts fear it will lead to increased premiums for employers and individuals. Recent research from the American Medical Association identified the 10 states with the least competitive health insurance markets.

Is the U.S. health care system overrated and overpriced?

Commentary: Our focus on each item that comes along in the employee-employer relationship blinds us to the bigger picture issues.

Professional services company Towers Watson has agreed to acquire Brovada, a Canadian insurance technology business best known for the BrovadaOne platform, an application for integrating and automating interactions between insurers, and their agents and brokers.

Commentary: Many plan sponsors believe that just by hiring an adviser they do not have a fiduciary obligation to understand the investments in their plans. This is fundamentally wrong.

There’s a huge discrepancy between what millennials want from their benefits and what their employers think they want. What does this mean for open enrollment?

As health care continues to garner the attention of the C-suite, benefits professionals are becoming key players at the executive level. Here are six critical skills and areas for benefits pros to master if they have their sights set on the job of chief human resources officer, courtesy of Aon Hewitt research that looked into what it takes to develop the next generation of CHROs.

In the first year of open enrollment on its private benefit exchange, brokerage Lovitt & Touché made some mistakes. But the firm won’t be repeating them, says the Phoenix-based brokerage’s senior vice president.

Having developed robo platforms for retail clients and advisors, Betterment is expanding further into the asset management industry with a 401(k) offering for businesses. As can be expected from its CEO Jon Stein, the scope is grand as the digital-first firm sees a $4.6 trillion market ripe for disruption.