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• Arkansas hospitals release study on Medicaid expansion

  By The Associated Press  |  March 5, 2013

  A study from the Arkansas Hospital Association says expanding Medicaid's eligibility would result in a $664 million net savings to the state over the next several years and create thousands of jobs.

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  Greenberg insists AIG failure wasn’t his fault

  By Christina Rexrode  |  February 28, 2013

  Four-and-a-half years after insurance giant AIG collapsed, leading to the biggest bailout of the financial crisis, former CEO Hank Greenberg has one message: Don't blame me.

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  How much is too much?

  By Marlene Y. Satter  |  February 21, 2013

  Increasingly, employers use automated retirement plan features to boost employee participation. With it, participation soared above 90 percent, but is everyone happy?

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  Economic jitters compete with Obama agenda

  By Jim Kuhnhenn  |  January 31, 2013

  Just as President Barack Obama is pushing new initiatives on gun control and immigration, the gloomy old problem of a sluggish economy is elbowing its way back into prominence. Consumer confidence is falling, the economy is contracting and large automatic spending cuts are threatening to hit the Pentagon and other...

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  What you might not know about the PPACA

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  October 1, 2012

  These provisions might not make headlines, but can be just as costly.

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  What you might not know about the PPACA

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  September 11, 2012

  Here are some of the lesser known effects of the law.

• Know your BMI: Docs urged to screen for obesity

  By Lauran Neergaard  |  June 25, 2012

  Body mass index signals if you're overweight, obese or just right considering your height. Some doctors have begun calling it a vital sign, as crucial to monitor as blood pressure.

• Undoing health reform could have messy ripple effects

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  June 11, 2012

  It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama's health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers. But here's the catch: The parents' taxes would go up.

• Employers ask applicants for Facebook passwords

  By Manuel Valdes, Shannon McFarland  |  March 20, 2012

  In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person's social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around.

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  The numbers game

  By Denis Storey  |  February 27, 2012

  The GOP primary battle has been a long, bloodied affair, making the Democratic primary battle royale four years ago look like a cricket match.