Benefit plan design

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, so when health reform offers women free preventative services, many are left wondering where they came from.

In first presidential debate, the former Massachusetts governor championed the private sector, but offered few details on his plan to replace Obamacare.

Based on a review of 35 major health plan websites, most issuers are still struggling to provide the Summary of Benefits and Coverage, even while the SBC provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act took effect last week, according to Tyrula LLC.

Nelson Griswold on how brokers can survive the PPACA health reform tsunami.

John Lamb shares how health care can be fixed by using an IT mindset.

The outcome of November’s presidential and Congressional elections could bring change to how quickly the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is implemented.

Republican Mitt Romney cited a Massachusetts health care law he backed as showing his “empathy,” then later reiterated his pledge to repeal national legislation modeled after the state’s measure as he and President Barack Obama crisscrossed Ohio yesterday.

More than one-fourth of Americans rate the nation’s health care system “poor,” according to a new report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Health care reform hits a bump in the road as new numbers indicate that insurance is more expensive and fewer people have it.

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday passed a bill that would exclude compensation paid for licensed independent insurance producers from the premium portion of the medical loss ratio calculation.

Mississippi insurance commissioner Mike Chaney is in a tight spot. By law, he is required to implement Democratic President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. But as a Republican from deeply conservative Mississippi — one of 26 states that sued Washington over Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — Chaney is a target of critics who say he is betraying his party.

Americans are becoming more optimistic about the direction of the country, giving a boost to President Barack Obama in the final stretch of the race for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday.

It was a common theme at the 7th Annual Employee Benefit Adviser Summit in Phoenix this week that no matter who wins the presidential election in November, changes are forthcoming for benefit plans and administration. According to political activist and commentator Meghan McCain, should President Barack Obama keep his job, changes will be coming for the Republican Party as well.

The pundit and senator’s daughter says the Republican Party needs to shift with the times or risk extinction.

Employers turn to private retiree Medicare exchanges for a glimpse of what insurance exchanges under PPACA might look like in 2014

In a detailed and passionate endorsement of his former rival, former President Bill Clinton amplified the central argument of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign: that voters face a choice between Democratic policies that lead to broad prosperity or Republican policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

Two dozen Democratic women from the U.S. House of Representatives brought the charge that Republicans are waging a "war on women" to the party's convention stage on Tuesday with sharp denunciations of Republicans on health care, equal pay and domestic violence.

Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan portrayed Barack Obama as a shallow president who has failed to live up to his promises, in a convention speech also infused with an optimism reminiscent of Obama’s 2008 “yes we can” campaign theme.

A new survey shows that, despite rising costs, more companies plan to keep health care on the menu for active employees.

The Republican National Convention adopted a 2012 party platform that advocates changing how U.S. senior citizens receive health care by shifting Medicare from a defined-benefit entitlement to a defined-contribution plan.