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Above the Fold

November 23, 2011

Social Security saved by supercommittee's failure

By Paula Aven Gladych

The Social Security program has lived to see another day, thanks to the squabbling of the budget deficit supercommittee...Read more

Today's News

NAIC passes broker compensation resolution

By Elizabeth Festa

A deeply divided plenary body of the NAIC passed a contentious resolution backed by health insurers and agents but not consumer groups late Tuesday that urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to take "whatever immediate actions are available" to it to release agents and brokers from medical loss ratio (MLR) strictures enacted under the 2010 health care reform act...Read more

Survey: Dental benefits lead to good oral health

By Jenny Ivy

Those with dental benefits, or access to affordable dental care, are 28 percent more likely to rate their oral health as excellent or very good, according to an NADP Consumer Survey...Read more

7 areas of 'relief' for advisors in DOL's reproposed fiduciary rule

By Melanie Waddell

Fred Reish, well-known among advisors as the ERISA guru, recently predicted areas of "relief" that the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration will provide when it reproposes its rule amending the definition of fiduciary early next year...Read more

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The Pulse

Taxing our patience: Time to separate executive pay from talent retention

By Steve Parrish

We need a new name for the compensation paid to key talent in a business. "Executive benefits" is often equated with C-Suite perks in public companies, not with the incentives used in American businesses to encourage top performers to perform to their highest potential...Read more

Overheard on BenefitsPro

C'mon, you all know this "Super Committee" is just a fig leaf to provide political cover for both sides and punt on the deficit until after 2012.

-- Hubert Vale, Dead on arrival

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