The largest federally mandated change in the health insurance market since World War Two is coming at us fast. Virtually 100 percent of all insurance clients will be impacted in some manner by the PPACA legislation.

Take a walk with an employee benefits broker on an imaginary tour of the new health care reform provisions to learn what this brave new world means for agents and consumers.

In the year since the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as uncertainty has mounted over how the health insurance reform law will work and whether it eventually will even be the law of the land, producers are concluding they can only keep up, team up...

Although many components of the law won’t come into play until 2014, significant portions of the healthcare reform law took effect on Jan. 1. Here are the top 5 changes to employee benefits to expect in 2011.