Long-term care insurance still has a bright future, LTC Financial Partners said in a statement following MetLife's exodus from the LTCI market last week.

Health care affordability is placing an escalating strain on employees and dwindling satisfaction with their health plans, especially as costs are growing faster than inflation and income increases, finds a Towers Watson survey.

As the year winds down, consumers with health care flexible spending accounts (FSAs) should check their account balances and make plans to spend any remaining funds by the end of the year so that those funds are not forfeited.