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In an unprecedented move, President Barack Obama's vaunted political organization is being turned into a nonprofit group funded in part by corporate money to mobilize support behind the president's second-term agenda.

The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released some long-awaited rules that expand and update the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

The federal government is giving Oregon $226 million to finish creating an online marketplace where people can shop for health insurance.

Most Americans think jarring economic problems will erupt if lawmakers fail to increase the government's borrowing limit. Yet they're torn over how or even whether to raise it, leaning toward Republican demands that any boost be accompanied by spending cuts.

Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity of research on how to prevent gun violence has left policymakers shooting in the dark as they craft gun control measures without...

The leader of the nation's largest health insurer warned Thursday not to assume widespread participation from his company in part of health care overhaul's coverage expansion that unfolds later this year.