Broker Regulation

With the price of a crucial diabetes drug skyrocketing, at least five states and a federal prosecutor are demanding information from insulin manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industrys financial middlemen.

The Trump administration has come out with a 365-page notice that shows how the U.S. major medical insurance market could look in 2019 if that market still exists.

A merger of CVS and Aetna would create a health-care behemoth and put huge pressure on standalone players such as Express Scripts Holding Co. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

Since the loss of cost-sharing reduction payments related to coverage on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, insurers have boosted their rates by anywhere from 7 to 38 percent, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

If the current Affordable Care Act employer coverage reporting rules stay in place, the Internal Revenue Service has to do something to ease employers' desperation over getting accurate Social Security numbers for the employees' spouses, children and other dependents.

Actuaries and insurance buyers may be on opposite ends of the insurance industry spectrum, but we all have a common goal securing the best benefits and coverage while keeping costs low.