Broker Regulation

It's critical that employers and their benefits advisors take the fiduciary standards learned from retirement plans and apply them to their health plans.

"As the largest employer in the world, Amazon makes clear that it does not believe the law applies to it and that they are free to treat their employees how they see fit. The law does not support this belief," the plaintiff said in a court filing.

If you track the revenue of UnitedHealth, Cigna, Aetna/CVSHealth, Anthem/Elevance, and the Blues combined, you'll see that as their revenue goes up, so do the premiums charged to employers and employees.

Annual growth in health services spending now higher than before the pandemic.

Officials also explain why U.S. health care costs have grown more slowly than they expected.

The unusual step comes as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is under the gun to curb unauthorized enrollment and switching of Affordable Care Act plans by rogue agents.