Broker Regulation

The Arizona Department of Corrections says it has severed ties with a Pennsylvania company and has hired a new contractor to provide health services for all inmates in the state prison system.

Republicans in control of North Carolina's General Assembly introduced legislation Wednesday that would block the expansion of Medicaid under the health care overhaul and leave it to the federal government to build the state's online marketplace for health insurance.

Medicare is announcing a price cut.

Am I the only one fed up with all of these mixed signals? I havent been this confused since reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a Percocet-PBR high.

Driven by frustration over deficits and debt, Republican conservatives are pushing a politically risky move to permit painfully large automatic spending cuts to strike the Pentagon and domestic programs alike in an effort to force Democrats into making concessions on the budget.

A lawyer for a former Texas businessman who helped orchestrate a $100 million life insurance fraud scheme urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to toss out his convictions and 60-year prison sentence.