Employee-Paid

Executives at Aflac are hoping that strong dental insurance sales will buoy sales of cancer insurance, hospital indemnity insurance and other worksite benefits products.

"In some states, such as Nebraska, the premium increase is a startling 300%," Josh Buchness, a vice president at Founder Shield, said.

About 67% of solo-agers are confident that a support network (such as friends, family and neighbors) will provide for them as they age.

Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), and Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.) are proposing a two-year extension of the enhanced enhanced premium tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of this year without congressional action.

Americans older than 75 now control an “extraordinary” amount of wealth relative to younger generations and people who were in that age bracket in past decades.

If insurers started their own digital, "insurance-integrated" drug sales programs, that could lower what the patients pay out of pocket to use the programs and encourage more patients to try the programs, analysts say.