Now that PPACA legislation is almost here, it seems more overbearing than ever before.

Kristen Allison is a 30-year veteran of the employee benefits industry and CEO of Burnham Benefits Insurance Services, a leading employee benefits brokerage in California.

Under the cover of night, Tea Party darling Michelle Bachmann announced she wouldnt seek a fifth term in Minnesotas sixth district.

A single, distinctive envelope lay nestled among the stack of junk mail when I got home last night. And, no, it wasnt a subpoena Im pretty sure those have to be hand-delivered.

Ive been thinking a lot lately about my 401(k). Or, lets be honest, the lack of it.

As if the Internal Revenue Service werent bad enough before

Now that Im (mostly) recovered from last weeks Benefits Selling Expoour biggest, by the way, with more than a 1,000 people crowded into the Marriott Marina in San DiegoIm struck by a couple of things.

The uninsured have weighed on this country for decadeseconomically, socially and politically.