Senior leadership is continuing to put an emphasis on improving employee health, according a survey by Willis North America's Human Capital Practice, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced in a letter it has granted a waiver to the Maine Bureau of Insurance, which delays the implementation of the federal medical loss ratio requirement by three years.

Twenty-seven percent of employees say they are "not at all confident" about having enough money to live comfortably in retirement.

Congressmen Charles Boustany, R-La., and John Larson, D-Conn., introduced the Medical Flexible Spending Account Improvement Act, which would allow consumers to withdraw and pay taxes on any residual funds in their medical flexible spending accounts.

Fewer employees are placing a high priority on managing and improving their health, according to a recent Towers Watson survey of more than 9,000 large- and mid-size employees.

Ninety-seven percent of employees participating in one-to-one benefits counseling sessions during enrollment say they better understanding of the benefits their employers offer.

More than one-third of employees cite weight loss as a primary health concern in 2011, according to a ComPsych Corporation poll, while 23 percent of employees say stress is their top health issue.

Many middle-income Americans not using professional retirement advice wrongly think they can plan without help, don't have enough assets to require an advisor or can't afford advisor's fees.