Youve heard of disability insurance, right? I mean what benefits manager worth his or her employee handbook hasnt, right? You sit down with your employees and go over the basics at least once a year, right?
For the first time, we've got four different generationswith completely different wants, needs and perspectives sharing office space. Communicating with them, and consequently, selling them benefit solutions, often comes down to not only getting behind those different perspectives but actually speaking their language, as well.
Theres been a lot of talk and press coverage over the last couple of years about employer-based health benefits. Where is it going? How much more will it cost? And will reform kill it altogether? From McKinsey to Willis to our very own surveys, the fate of employer-sponsored...
FDR signed Social Security into law in 1935. Medicare came along 30 years later. Social Security is the largest government program in the world (funny given the rep of most of Europe). And the two programs combined not only rank as two of the three largest chunks of the federal...
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll reveals most of us expect the Supreme Court to rule along partisan lines in June when they rule on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
It almost sounds like a bad southerner joke: Did you hear the one about the hospital that wouldnt hire fat people? Theyre worried theyd scare the old people to death.