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Two Wisconsin appellate courts bolstered portions of Republicans' contentious collective bargaining restrictions Tuesday, ruling that Milwaukee police can't negotiate their own health care costs and that a county board legally required elected officials to pay more for their benefits.

The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health insurance fee could add about 1.7 percent to the cost of commercial coverage from a for-profit plan in 2014.

Presidential campaigns are long in the making, quick to be forgotten. But one part of them lives on for years: the victor's promises.

Insurers have been saying that health reforms age-rating provision will raise young-adult premiums. But a new report say that assumption looks to be overblown.

Hypocrisy is nothing new in Washington. The long-running debate over taxes and spending, however, is producing especially blatant examples of politicians contradicting themselves or attacking opponents for taking the very stances they've taken themselves.

With higher capital and liquidity requirements for banks, U.S. economic and job growth can expect to take a hit, according to a study by Oxford Economics.