Sector: Life and Health Insurance

A small-business advocacy group that has fought the nation’s new health care laws all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court is now pushing five market-based solutions it claims will bring down the skyrocketing health care costs small-business owners face.    Read More

Whew. Three days of Supreme Court hearings on health care, and you’d think “mandate”, “severability” “buying broccoli” are the only topics that anyone cares about. Well, small business owners do care, and they react to the past three days of hearings.   Read More

Like most other business people who run health-care-focused businesses, I am already thinking about what might happen to our company once the Supreme Court has its say.    Read More

Dentists nationwide say they are seeing more preschoolers at all income levels with cavities so severe that they often recommend using general anesthesia, reports The New York Times.   Read More

Employees enrolled in at-work wellness programs report reduced personal healthcare costs, according to a new study, and their employers, who are seeing higher productivity and attendance, are often happy to foot the bill.     Read More

Employers stand to save 50 percent in health-care costs combating obesity, and Weight Watchers is perfectly positioned to help them do that, analyst Charles Boorady told CNBC Thursday.   Read More