Practice Management

Wanted: Chief executive for health-care startup. Must be able to reinvent an industry, reduce spiraling costs and improve care for one million people -- and possibly the entire nation.

The company's selling expense amount for health insurance fell to $363 million in the latest quarter, down 8.1 percent from the amount for the fourth quarter of 2016.

Amazon.com Inc., Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. say they plan to collaborate on a way to offer health-care services to their U.S. employees more transparently and at a lower cost.

2018 is poised to be a year of major changes (and challenges), and the brokers who bring the most innovative ideas to the table will find themselves coming out on top.

While opinion is divided about just how many jobs will disappear, and at which skill levels, the end result is that a lot of jobs are going to vanishand they wont be coming back.

Currently, insurance companies are not set up to compete on the experience level. When someone has a great experience idea in mind for an insurance company, the technology gap that keeps such an initiative from launching presents a major obstacle.