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More than 1 million people waited until the last five days to sign up for 2014 health coverage under Obamacare, and early indications are that many were young minorities, insurance analysts and enrollment groups said.

It’s no secret that abnormal levels of stress can worsen, or perhaps even cause, a myriad health issues from depression to obesity and diabetes. According to a new survey from Keas, up to 41% of your workforce may be suffering from above average levels of stress.

Lower salaries and longer life expectancies are two of several factors that put women at a greater risk for not achieving a financially secure retirement. In fact, only 7% of women are “very confident” in their ability to retire comfortably, according to the 14th annual Transamerica Retirement Survey of Workers. Here are a few ways advisers can help their employers ensure female employees are ready. [Images: Thinkstock]

A majority of Americans remain uninsured and many based the decision to stay uninsured on the cost of coverage, with many not even visiting an exchange to see a price estimate, a new study from consultancy Market Strategies International finds.

Retirement plan sponsors and their consultants are attentively following the Supreme Court today as it hears oral arguments in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Duddenhoeffer, a case that has implications for the retirement plan industry’s fiduciary standard in employee stock ownership plans.

Typically thought of as the employees’ responsibility, plan sponsors should actually facilitate all aspects of required minimum distributions – from alerting participants about them to activating the fund withdrawal.

Benefits contribute up to an additional one-third to employees’ total compensation, according to research from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics. As the industry celebrates National Employee Benefits Day on April 2, employers can encourage workers to make the most of their benefits.

The latest ACA enrollment extension could mean big losses for insurers and higher premiums for everyone in 2015, Moody’s predicts.

Overall spending on traditional prescription drugs — mostly pills used to treat common conditions such as high cholesterol and depression — will decline 4% by the end of 2015, largely because of the availability of generic medications, according Express Scripts. Here are 10 of the top brand-name drugs that had generic equivalents become available in 2013 or are expected to have generics available this year, courtesy of Express Scripts.

President Barack Obama’s declaration that 7.1 million health-plan enrollments serve as a rebuke to critics of his signature law won’t diminish the opposition nor stop the scrutiny of the overhaul’s effect.