Broker Regulation

Unlikely as it may seem, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress actually share some common ground on the need to curb Medicare costs to fight the spiraling federal debt.

Shares in American International Group Inc. tumbled on Monday, deepening a slide that's brought the insurer's shares to the lowest point since March 2010 and stoked concerns over whether the U.S. government will be able to make a profit off an upcoming sale of AIG stock.

A Maine woman who ran a company that served children with mental disabilities was sentenced to prison for overcharging a state health care program by more than $4 million.

A health care policy expert who helped develop President Jimmy Carter's doomed national health plan and was one of the architects of Massachusetts' landmark health care law has died. Dr. James Mongan was 69.

Four people have been convicted in Houston of conspiring to defraud the Medicare program out of $5.2 million over a three-year period.

Republicans in the Kansas House say they're willing to sink an important unemployment insurance bill to salvage a proposal to prohibit labor unions from using funds deducted from members' paychecks for political activities.