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Seventy-two percent of those polled recently by T. Rowe Price say that saving for retirement is their top financial goal, but are our mouths and our money in the same place?

President Obama’s re-election rallied shares for hospitals last week as the number of insured Americans is set to rise. Health insurance companies, however, face profit limits and new taxes.

Those buying homes as an investment now represent 18% of sales as many are disappointed with bank savings and wary of the stock market.

The average 401(k) balance is up 18% over last year, according to Fidelity Investments, and employer contributions are rising faster those from employees.

Eric Greitens — Navy SEAL, Rhodes scholar and founder and CEO of The Mission Continues — delivered a Veterans Day keynote address to HR/benefit professionals at the annual conference of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. Greitens sought to remind practitioners of the unique and valuable skills, training and commitment veterans can bring to the civilian workforce once their military service is complete.

The health care industry will change its focus from expanding the insurance market to reining in medical costs now that the presidential election has been decided, says the CEO of the main lobbying group for health insurers.

As EBN legal contributor Frank Palmieri noted just before election day, an Obama re-election would have employers “doing the numbers” to see how PPACA’s various mandates would stack up against the ability to maintain profits. So far, a number of leaders at large employers don't like what they see.

The Congressional Budget Office said in a report that a Congressional fix to exclude broker commissions from medical loss ratio calculations will increase deficits by $531 million over the 2013-2017 period.

The same law that allows employers to sue employees over sharing or destroying proprietary information could just as well go the other way with workers seeking damages after personal information has been compromised on dual use devices.

The president’s re-election probably spells doom for any short-term efforts to overturn PPACA, and industry professionals who waited to implement health care reform changes can wait no longer.