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Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services granted more than $14 million to help eradicate health care disparities for the underserved, unemployed and minority communities.

Almost 70 percent of U.S. consumers believe they have little to no impact on reducing their own health care costs, according to a recent health care reform report.

A mind might be a terrible thing to waste, but so is an open enrollment.

To add more value to employer benefits, employees expect more paid voluntary benefits at a time when more employers are placing the financial burden on employees because of the down economy.

Roughly 1,000 more organizations have been approved since August by the Department of Health and Human Services to receive reimbursements for their early retirees' medical claims.

According to the 2010 U.S. Group Life and Group Disability Mid-Year Market Survey, the group life and disability markets continue to face slow growth after a tough 2009, finds South Portland, Maine-based JHA, a division of Gen Re.

The Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement last week, saying HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will "exercise her discretion"

Aetna will no longer sell new small-group health insurance in Colorado and existing small-group clients will be moved off the plan in the next year, sending ripples through 1,200 companies and 5,200 employees and their dependents.