Broker Regulation

The U.S. Labor Department should try to make the regulations governing the security of information at retirement plans and health benefits plans as similar as possible, and leave room for technology changes.

A conservative-leaning panel of federal appellate judges raised concerns about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul Friday, but suggested the challenge to it may be premature.

The federal government has doled out more than $600 million in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says.

Oregon's Senate has confirmed Gov. John Kitzhaber's nominees to the Health Insurance Exchange Board.

Nurses in red union shirts carried signs and chanted slogans outside dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals on Thursday as part of a one-day strike over benefit cuts and other concessions sought by hospital management.

Federal health officials are pushing Florida lawmakers to include a provision in their Medicaid overhaul that would require private health plans to spend 85 percent of funds on patient care, state health officials said Wednesday.