There is a big difference between price and cost when it comes to disability insurance, writes The Standard's Steve Brady.

More people signed up for Obamacare health plans in the first two days of December than in all of October after the U.S. government rehabilitated its error-prone insurance-exchange website.

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The federal agency in charge of exchanges is communicating with brokers about technology improvements, but brokers say they haven’t heard much of anything, yet.

In an environment of rapidly rising premiums and deductibles, non-traditional products and services help mitigate health care costs, promote educated consumerism, and reduce out-of-pocket medical expenses for the insured, uninsured and under-insured.

Blogger Rob Lieblein points out that about 70% of insurance agencies don’t have a succession plan and says that it’s not as easy and fast a process as most brokers think.

Employers continue to see a rise in health insurance costs. Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage reached $16,351 in 2013, up 4% from last year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) 2013 Employer Health Benefits Survey. So how can employers work to control these costs? A key success factor in reducing health insurance costs is the leadership’s commitment to this strategy. Can you find top-down leadership commitment to a long-term program…

Dave Albertson, the editorial director of SourceMedia’s Healthcare Group, died on Sunday, November 24, from heart disease.

To help make the most of open enrollment season and position yourself as a trusted resource for your roster of HR managers, The Standard's John West shares a few focus areas to help strengthen your clients’ overall benefits health.

President Barack Obama plans to highlight the 2010 health care law’s benefits at a White House event Tuesday that kicks off a three-week campaign to regain support for a program marred by a troubled implementation.

The Obama administration says much of the site is fixed but it’s not clear still how much of that is true.

A staple component of every independent brokerage and agency for marketing and service, this element changed dramatically for most brokers in 2013

President Barack Obama raised the stakes on his three-year-old health care overhaul Sunday, declaring that fixes to his administration’s troubled insurance exchange website make it ready to sign up 800,000 people a day.

In the latest ACA delay announced Wednesday, HHS touts brokers as an alternative for small businesses to enroll

The birth-control rule stems from the health care law’s requirement that employers provide insurance coverage meeting minimum standards. Hobby Lobby says it could be fined as much as $475 million a year for noncompliance.

A behind the scenes look at how President Barack Obama is monitoring the ACA website situation as the Nov. 30 deadline to fix it fast approaches.

The decision by CMS leaves just eight days for insurers to send bills to those signing up on the last day of the enrollment period.

Quandary emerges for brokers who trained on the systems but might not want the business.

Public support for the U.S. health care overhaul fell to its lowest level in a Kaiser Family Foundation survey after the Oct. 1 debut of government-run insurance marketplaces greeted consumers with breakdowns on websites, higher prices and potentially broken promises.

Republican senators introduced a bill this week that would prevent the exclusion of multi-employer health plans from a $63 reinsurance fee that the ACA imposes on each enrollee.