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Entrepreneur June 2003 Stephen Barlas	To Your Health An old health insurance bill gets a second chance at life.
Managed Care April 2004	Small-Business Lobbying Groups Split Over Association Health Plans Lobbying organizations representing small businesses are divided over association health plans (AHPs), and that amounts to a serious drawback in Washington, D.C.
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BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Weber et al.	Health Insurance: Small Biz Is In A Bind Disproportionately hit by cost hikes, more small businesses have stop offering health care coverage to their workers.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
Managed Care July 2007	ERISA Proposes Using TPAs A coalition of the country's largest employers said health care coverage and retirement plans for American workers should be delivered by third-party administrators such as banks, investment companies, and insurers.
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The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Health Insurance ... or Else Health insurance can protect you from huge medical bills. Yet for a variety of reasons, many people go without health insurance. Now, government leaders are taking a new approach toward making sure everyone gets the medical care they need.
Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers.
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Entrepreneur September 2004 Joshua Kurlantzick	Race to the Top Polls show that for most Americans, the war is a secondary issue compared to the economy. For small companies, this is even truer. A look at the issues shaping President Bush's and Senator Kerry's entrepreneurial agendas.
OCC Bulletin June 1, 2006	Interagency Agreement on ERISA Referrals The agreements facilitate the information-sharing process among employees of the banking regulators and Department of Labor.
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Jeanne Lee	The Sky Is Not Falling Small business clients have been hard-hit by increased healthcare expenditures over the past 10 years, so it's not surprising that the healthcare reform bill has many of them anxious and confused.
Managed Care May 2002	Small employers plan to shift increased costs to workers Small companies -- those with 3 to 24 employees -- are bracing for continuing health care cost increases, and indicate that they may have to shift more of that expense to workers
Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
Investment Advisor June 2, 2011 Melanie Waddell	DOL's Rule 408(b)(2) Saga Continues: Further Compliance Extension Likely Final 408(b)(2) has yet to surface; former EBSA head Campbell says that officials will ask for compliance extension.
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Managed Care August 2005	Who's Responsible For Controlling Costs? When it comes to controlling rising health care costs, consumers think the responsibility rests squarely on health insurance companies' shoulders, a new survey says.
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Investment Advisor September 2008 Melanie Waddell	SEC, DOL to Share Data The SEC and Department of Labor agree to share information on retirement and investments in an effort to protect the $5.8 trillion in retirement assets of American workers.
Registered Rep. April 17, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	DOL Moves Industry Closer to Harmonization The Department of Labor's proposal may represent the first step in a harmonized fiduciary standard by maintaining flexibility of business models.
Managed Care November 2006	Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits.
Registered Rep. May 26, 2005 Kristen French	Under ERISA, No Padding Profits with Revenue Sharing Under a recent Department of Labor directive, revenue-sharing arrangements between mutual funds and advisors to employee benefit plans can no longer be used to pad profits.
Managed Care July 2003	Business Groups Not Sold On Association Health Plans Some powerful business groups charge that association health plans, one of the cornerstones of the Bush administration's attempt to reform the medical system, would harm those companies that choose not to participate.
Investment Advisor July 2008	News & Products, July 2008 Department of labor will continue to scrutinize the indirect compensation that advisors acting as pension consultants receive... The number individuals participating in HSA-eligible high-deductible health plans jumped significantly since 2004... etc.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Melanie Waddell	Failure to Compute? The Department of Labor is set to tell Congress by year-end if computer models are suitable for IRAs.