Health Care Reform

To many, the phrase consumer-driven health care is another way of saying higher deductibles and co-pays. Make it more expensive to access medical care, the logic goes, and employees will think harder about whether that doctors visit is really necessary.

They say insurance is the one career no one really plans to follow.

When it comes to compensating and rewarding employees, more companies are going less traditional.

With little motivation for todays brokers to stay in the game, what will drive a new wave of young professionals into the industry?

PPACA wins in court, target date funds miss target and the HR frenzy in Vegas

Another unintended consequence of President Barack Obama's health care law has emerged: Older adults of the same age and income with similar medical histories could pay widely different amounts for private health insurance due to a quirk of the complex legislation.

In the first ruling by a federal appeals court on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a panel in Cincinnati affirmed Wednesday that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage.

Americans seem not to have awakened to the fast-looming debt crisis that could summon a new recession, imperil their stock market investments and shatter faith in the world's most powerful economy. Those are among the implications, both sudden and long-lasting, expected to unfold if the U.S. defaults on debt payments...