Susan Rupe is editor in chief, magazine, for InsuranceNewsNet. She formerly served as communications director for an insurance agents' association and was an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor. Contact her at [email protected].
Long-term care in the U.S. is in crisis, and one way to help more Americans prepare for future care needs is for LTC insurance carriers to focus on the middle market.
Tariffs have radically altered Morningstar’s second-quarter U.S. economic outlook as the organization’s chief U.S. economist said President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs have pushed projected gross domestic product down, pushed projected inflation rates up and increased the risk of a recession to 40%.
Do they bite the bullet and pay more for their coverage? Do they opt to reduce their benefits in an attempt to save money? Or do they choose to stop paying on their policies altogether?
Inflation is persisting, interest rates are still high and economic uncertainty is all around. Consumers need their advisors to help them navigate this terrain.
Five years after COVID-19 disrupted the world, the effects are still being felt. One of the biggest effects to impact the world of health insurance and benefits is greater awareness around mental health.
Medicare Advantage plans increasingly rely on middlemen for marketing, a move that is hiking costs and making it more difficult for government to oversee and regulate the health plans that millions of older Americans rely on. That was among the findings of a report released last week by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.
Two professional associations representing health agents and brokers came out against the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s view of those who enroll consumers in coverage.
This is the year the health insurance agents “take our industry back for good,” the president and CEO of Health Agents for America told InsuranceNewsNet.
Profitability will be the biggest top-of-mind issue for insurers in 2025, while advanced data and analytic technologies will be insurers’ top strategic priority this year.