Health Care Reform

If regulators stick with the current ICHRA rules, the ICHRA program "has the potential to lower individual market premiums by improving the risk profile," the actuaries write.

“The 'pink tax’ is traditionally defined as the practice of charging women more than men for identical goods and services, from razors to dry cleaning,” the GoodRX report said.

If employees can buy the coverage through an off-exchange Section 125 cafeteria plan, then the employees can pay the premiums with pre-tax earnings, the executives say.

The nomination for Daniel Aronowitz to lead EBSA, the department's benefits arm, is still pending.

Roughly 79% of the Republicans and just 42% of the Democrats agreed that "there's too much government regulation in health care today."

“Coverage of GLP-1s is not necessarily in-your-face obvious. It leads to the conversation of whether we want to pursue weight loss through drug products or something like a wellness program," said Zak Kornblum, Pharm.D., pharmacy clinical director for Marsh McLennan Agency.