Personal financial pain is the driver for gaining mind-share in the life of many of the people the PPACA must reach.

Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche, 69, is focusing on annuities as more Americans approach retirement and competitors including MetLife Inc. limit sales.

George Miller, the California Democrat who wrote legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour and now wants to link it to inflation, announced he will retire from Congress.

Gallup research shows that "managers from hell" are creating active disengagement costing the U.S. an estimated $450 billion to $550 billion annually.