Employee-Paid

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is supposed to find $1 billion in spending cuts and revenue increases.

Executives at Principal Financial see higher claims and tough price competition.

A majority of respondents (65%) said that their incomes were not keeping up with the cost of living.

A failed system implementation hurt efforts to get brokers interested in Aflac's dental plans last quarter, and that hurt sales of other products, an executive said.

The bill has been coming around since 2015, but it now appears to have a much better chance of becoming law.

Brokers have a critical role to play in helping people practitioners implement solutions that not only address immediate cost concerns but also foster a culture of long-term employee wellbeing.