Susan Rupe

Open enrollment season for Medicare as well as Affordable Care Act health plans is in full swing and many agents are finding it difficult – if not impossible – to enroll people in coverage.

Strong economic growth, moderating inflation, declining interest rates and easing monetary policy is leading to robust returns, Morningstar strategists said.

The post-election period provides advisors to engage in a discussion with their clients on financial issues that are impacted by the election and issues that are not.

An advisor is forming a coalition of professionals to support underserved groups and said he was inspired to do so by the Nov. 5 election results and concerns from clients about what policy changes a new administration and a new Congress could mean for them.

The Medicare open enrollment period already was off to a rocky start and it just became a bit rockier.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners Long-Term Care Actuarial (B) Working Group failed to pass a motion that would adopt a new long-term care insurance cost-sharing formula methodology that would be adopted and built into the multistate rate review framework.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is using algorithms that “seem to go after good agents who are minority agents and, therefore their minority communities,” the CEO of a health insurance agents association told a National Association of Insurance Commissioners working group.

The use of AI has skyrocketed in the few short years it has been in existence, and its usage has reached the point where it is outpacing regulation, NAIC's Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (H) Working Group was told.