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Higher consumer spending on health services, increased prescriptions for costly medications and more elective surgeries suggests Americans are using the insurance they gained under Obamacare.

How many individuals and families that selected a health plan in the federally facilitated health insurance marketplace have paid their first month’s premium? Depends on whom you ask.

Now that tax season is over, Uncle Sam will be turning his attention to another pressing matter.

Commentary: Blogger Craig Hasday wants you to know what this new law could mean for advisers, and Washington.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a NAHU-backed bill exempting expatriate health plans from the ACA.

Despite a reliance on Healthcare.gov because their state-run exchange legislation was passed later than others, Idaho came out on top during open enrollment 2014 and the state has brokers to thank for a lot of it.

Today’s employers increasingly rely on a global workforce, and some ACA rules apply to employees working abroad. Similarly, ACA rules also apply to many foreign nationals working in the U.S.

A multi-generational and increasingly diverse workplace, coupled with the ongoing adjustments of the ACA, has led more and more employers to consider the benefits of defined contribution health care models.

Once viewed as a nice-to-have benefit, some say voluntary benefits should now be advertised and heavily promoted to millennial-age employees as an important component in their overall portfolio of benefits.

The confusion over health plan coverage is a reality for many employees. As the number of options flood the marketplace – whether they be defined contribution or defined benefit plan models, or plans on private exchanges – complexity can be a disadvantage. According to Towers Watson, employees need to ask more questions – or possibly these 10 questions – in order to gain an understanding of their company’s benefits.