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How Technology Can Support Medicare Enrollment
By Bethany CissellUsing the right tools can make getting your clients covered much easier.
January 23, 2025
U.S. Consumers Face Much More Uncertainty About FinancesA new index shows why retirement savers look fine on paper but feel dizzy in practice.
January 21, 2025
Trump Blocks Medicare's Efforts to Create a $2 Prescription Drug ListHe also declared that any new or pending regulations may go through some things.
January 13, 2025
Life Application Activity Suffers From the Winter BlahsPost-election uncertainty and agents' efforts to help clients with Medicare enrollment stress may have hurt volume.
January 02, 2025
WSJ Goes After Insurers' Medicare Advantage StrategyReporters looked into allegations that plans make patients look sicker than they are to boost payments.
December 27, 2024
Will the Medicare Plan Market Please Stop Shaking?Amanda Brewton, a distribution and policy veteran, has ideas about how agents can help add stability.
December 23, 2024
Mid-Career Adults Face 19% Increase in Death RateThe major drivers appear to be drug overdoses, alcohol and cardiovascular problems.
December 21, 2024
Biden Signs Anti-Shutdown Bill With Some Medicare Funding ProvisionsThe final American Relief Act excludes the Medicare plan directory and cancer blood test provisions.