Hello. Just wanted to let you know this blog will be reactived soon — I’m aiming for the first of July. After over two years, roughly 450 posts, and the long health care reform debate, it was time to take a short break. My thanks for the kind notes and inquiries and I look forward to [...]

With carrier scurrying around trying to figure out how they’ll meet the Medical Loss Ratio (“MLR”) requirements in the new health care reform, brokers are, not surprisingly, wondering what the impact will be on their commissions. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, carriers in the individual and small group markets (small groups are [...]