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A new health benefits coalition that represents employers, pharmacy benefit managers and health plans is offering up some criteria it believes will make it easier to administer an essential health benefits package, which is required by health reform.

Is regulation strangling the American entrepreneur? Several Republican presidential candidates say so. The numbers don't.

Presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of failing to lead in a time of economic peril but sounded less conservative than his Republican rivals in their debate Tuesday night, defending the 2008-2009 Wall Street bailout and declaring he could work with "good" Democrats.

Republican presidential primary candidate Mitt Romney says repealing Democrats' national health care plan is not enough. The former Massachusetts governor says Republicans have to be ready to replace it with something.

Arkansas insurance officials held a summit Tuesday to discuss how to set up an insurance exchange required under the federal health care overhaul, prompting complaints from Republican legislators who have objected to the state seeking funds for the program.

Congress and the White House face the choice of continued fighting or a shift toward bipartisan bargaining after the Senate voted to kill President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan.

How long has it been since labor numbers have been anything worth getting excited about? Its been in a freefall unlike anything weve seen in decades. We get excited about just breaking even.

Consumers and benefits advisors who look carefully may be able to find surprising Medicare supplement insurance bargains, a rating agency says.