| Above the Fold |
October 13, 2011 |
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| Today's News |
| 4 essential criteria for an essential benefits package
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By Jenny Ivy |
A new health benefits coalition that represents employers, pharmacy benefit managers and health plans is offering up some criteria it believes will make it easier to administer an essential health benefits package, which is required by health reform...Read more |
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| Retirement plans aren't out of reach for small biz |
| By Paula Aven Gladych |
| It used to be that small businesses couldn't afford to offer retirement plans for their employees. It cost too much and the offerings for small businesses were few and far between. That has changed in the past few years, with more companies offering micro retirement plans...Read more |
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| Next moves uncertain on jobs bill |
| By Andrew Taylor |
| President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in the Senate promise additional votes on pieces of the president's $447 billion jobs bill, but how those pieces might be arranged and when the votes might be taken is up in the air...Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
 I sometimes wonder if what we're seeing in our industry is a handful of very large insurance companies who would rather spend their marketing dollars on lobbyists in Washington than on developing business partnerships with thousands of unruly brokers, like us.
-- Ron Bridges, Fact check: Regulations not a huge jobs killer |
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