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Tips and Tricks to Save on Rx and Insurance
Even if you have insurance, the cost of medical care can be overwhelming. Many insurance plans come with high premiums, deductibles, and co-pays, and the costs only keep rising. Is there anything you can do to get your healthcare costs under control? The answer is...
Four Traits of an Above-Average Employee Benefits Broker
As an attractive incentive in a COVID-weary world, employee benefits demonstrate your dedication to your team's health and well-being, possibly tipping the scales for a prospective employee when it comes to working for your company versus a competitor’s. And for your...
Spring is Here! Make a Fresh Start with Life Insurance
As we move into the longer and warmer days of Spring, we feel the urge to clean up, de-clutter, and air out our surroundings. It’s time for renewal and a healthy, fresh start. There is another important area of our lives to revisit this time of year: life insurance....
Supplemental Insurance – a Winning Choice!
Have the athletic feats of the recent Winter Olympics inspired you? Perhaps you’re planning to visit one of our region’s nearby winter wonderlands just ahead of Springtime’s arrival. Before you pull out your snowskis and declare to your friends, “Hey Dude, watch...
Four Ways Benefits Can Give Your Employees Peace of Mind in 2022
As COVID-19 stubbornly persists, businesses, and the employees who keep them thriving, continue to pivot and grow in the face of continued uncertainty. As workers deal with anxiety related to childcare, eldercare, and the health issues of themselves along with their...
Resources to Help Employees Deal with the Impact of Covid-19
As unemployment numbers in the US reach their highest levels since the great depression, business owners and their employees face every day the question, what do I do now? Not only do employees face loss of income, they also face the possible loss of health insurance...
Is Your Employee Benefits Program Ready for What’s Coming Next?
I know its crazy right now, and with businesses just beginning to reopen around the country there are so many things we still don't know about the future. But one thing we do know, to be successful we will need to keep our employees. To do that every business owner...
How will you meet employee benefits challenges after Covid-19?
Businesses are beginning to reopen, and employees are coming back to work, or are they? Many employers are already discovering that some employees are not ready to come back. And even worse, some of the best workers in the work force are getting multiple offers from...
COVID-19 and Medicare for All.
COVID-19 is killing people. There can be no doubt that this will go down in history as one of the most devastating pandemics to hit our world. We will weather the storm, but we will be changed by it. Our lives will be different, our economy will be different, and our...
Are Voluntary Benefits the Right Solution?
The past few weeks have found me spending most of my time talking with the leaders of small businesses about employee benefits. The starting place for most of these conversations has been the question, "what can I do about benefits when I don't have any money in my...
Guess Who’s Having A Baby?
I remember the night I came home and my wife started our dinner conversation with that question. I immediately thought of our circle of friends wondering which one of them had received the happy news. I wasn't prepared for what she said next. With a huge smile on...
Jobs, The Stock Market, and Your Business: I Have Good News and Bad News.
The Dow Jones Average passed over $25,000 for the first time in history yesterday. Among the key drivers of the continuing growth in the market is the blistering pace of the US economy. Over 250,000 new jobs were created in December and the pace seems to be...