Broker Regulation

President Barack Obamas choice as the next health secretary, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, will hear lots of criticism of the presidents health-care overhaul Thursday at her first confirmation hearing.

Fewer insurers will try to serve both the group and individual markets.

Johanns says HHS is violating a provision in last year's appropriations package.

The penalty for "willful failures" to provide SBCs can be $1,000 per day per affected individual.

Maine and Georgia joined Massachusetts and New York last month in putting photos on welfare cards to stop misuse of taxpayer money, and similar proposals have been offered in a dozen other U.S. states.

The owners of New England Compounding Pharmacy Inc., the drug supplier blamed for a nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed 64, agreed to a settlement providing $100 million toward compensation for victims.