Benefits Manager

A recent study finds low-income and medically vulnerable high-deductible plan enrollees are just as likely to cut back on needed health care as other HDP enrollees.

The Department of Labor's new report on employer-sponsored health coverage, submitted Friday, is part of an effort to help the Department of Health and Human Services identify and define essential health benefits that must be offered by qualified health plans.

Most employees - both younger and older -believe benefits like medical insurance, defined contribution plans and dental insurance, are important; yet four out of 10 employees lack any knowledge of how much their medical insurance costs.

Illinois lawmakers set aside billions of dollars Friday to pay debts and pension costs, despite Republicans' arguments that it makes little sense to pass part of the state budget without a plan for the rest.

President Obama signed off on the 1099 tax repeal Friday.

Republican legislative leaders and Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue on Friday argued who would be blamed for cutting off unemployment benefits for about 37,000 long-term jobless workers — something lawmakers could reverse later if they wanted.

Hundreds of mostly poor and uninsured people are expected to turn out for a free dental clinic this weekend in Waterbury, an annual Connecticut event that has drawn patients from as far away as Michigan.

President Barack Obama has signed the first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax-reporting requirement that's widely unpopular with businesses.