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  Exchanges offer increased options for retirees

  By Lauren Jaeckel  |  January 28, 2013

  Where will retirees go for health care benefits?

• Nonpartisan group tasked with promoting health exchanges

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  January 25, 2013

  With health reform’s first health coverage enrollment period just nine months away, supporters of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are gearing up for a major push to get Americans to take advantage of the major component of the law.

• Mercer launches private exchange

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  January 10, 2013

  Mercer has jumped into the exchange game. The consulting firm Thursday announced the launch of Mercer Marketplace, a private benefits exchange designed to help employers and employees by offering them a one-stop-shop for their benefits from multiple insurance providers.

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  ‘The least among you’

  By Denis Storey  |  January 9, 2013

  A new Pew Research Center poll reveals a majority of us have received benefits from the “six best-known federal entitlement programs.”

• Assurant releases app for brokers

  By Noah Guillaume  |  December 18, 2012

  iPad app allows brokers to access marketing materials, online calculators and more.

• Allstate OKs billion-dollar share buyback plan

  By The Associated Press  |  December 17, 2012

  The Allstate Corp. said Monday that its board of directors approved a plan to buy back up to $1 billion of the insurer's shares by the end of next year.

• AIG could raise billions from AIA stake sale

  By The Associated Press  |  December 17, 2012

  AIG may raise as much as $6.52 billion from the sale of its remaining stake in Asian life insurer AIA Group Ltd.

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  No Christmas vacation

  By Denis Storey  |  November 27, 2012

  Now we have to sit around and fret over—and hear about—the so-called fiscal cliff. When did the news go from reporting the simple facts of a story to a bunch of phony opinions about the story? We’ve gone from reporting what happened to predicting what might. And usually getting it...

• Medicare enrollment deadline extended for Sandy victims

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  November 9, 2012

  Officials have extended the Dec. 7 deadline for Medicare enrollment for those who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy.

• Choosing health care benefits extremely difficult for consumers

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  November 2, 2012

  Americans have an important decision making event coming up—selecting their 2013 health benefits.