September 2022

Letter From the Editor

What's on the minds of clients: Are you prepared to help?

Paul Wilson | August 31, 2022

One of the biggest challenges we face is learning to filter out the noise and uncover what really matters.

September 06, 2022

Issue Gallery

Conversation

The cost of consolidation: Are mergers actually cost efficient?

The elephant in the health care M&A room remains the cost of those services post-merger.

Features

Dobbs and the abortion ban: the benefits world scrambles to deal with a new reality

Scott Wooldridge | July 18, 2022

Employers and advisors are deeply concerned about what the Dobbs ruling will mean for benefit plans, and whether they can fully serve the needs of the enrollees on group health plans, especially in states where an abortion ban is imminent or likely.

Plan sponsors have options in wake of Dobbs, but must be cautious

Dan Cook | September 01, 2022

Reproductive rights and benefits plan experts suggest plan sponsors move cautiously before converting individual actions and decisions into plan policies.

Pandemic shifts relationship between C-suite and brokers

Alan Goforth | September 02, 2022

The pandemic changed who advisors are talking to in the C-suite — and what they are talking about.

Columnists

Hospital indemnity is surging: Why now?

Marty Traynor | September 07, 2022

The answers are interrelated and center around two gaps in the typical family's financial security: The cost of hospital-related services and the amount of savings available.