Lifestyle Drugs: To Cover or Not to Cover?
By Sheela AndrewsSales of lifestyle drugs are booming.Fueled by growing demand from an aging population, the market for drugs used to treat conditions such as infertility, hair ...
April 18, 2004
New Pension Law Also Aids Mutual InsurersByThe new Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004 provides relief both for pension plan sponsors and for mutual life insurers.One section of the bill, H.R. ...
April 18, 2004
Drug Subsidy Gives Retiree Health Plans Some AirEmployer-sponsored retiree health plans continue to gasp for life, but the new Medicare drug subsidy has given them a welcome whiff of oxygen.That's the assessment ...
April 18, 2004
To Reach Senior Clients, Understand Their Mental ShortcutsTo Reach Senior Clients,Understand Their Mental ShortcutsBy Thomas BorchertIt seems that the older we get, the more we tend to use shortcuts. An old rhubarb ...
April 18, 2004
Wireless, Schmireless!What is all this hysteria and folderol about wireless?I mean it seems you cant go anywhere these days without some cellular or mobile computing company ...
April 18, 2004
Life After Gay LifeIf one thing became clear from the torrent of reaction I received after my March 8 column, "A Whole New Meaning For Gay Life," it ...
April 18, 2004
Voluntary Plans Can Fit Gen-Xer NeedsAs a benefits advisor, you might find yourself selling insurance plans that have changed little since 1960 to employers where most workers were born after ...
April 18, 2004
Converging Intl. Accounting Standards For EBOver the last few years, accounting standards for employee benefits around the world have begun to look similar. In the long term, convergence of accounting ...