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Customers of insurance giant Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield could pay up to $45 a month more for health insurance under a proposal announced Monday by the Des Moines-based company.

Mitt Romney is sitting pretty. Not only did he have another strong performance in the debate this week, but he now has the support of superstar Chris Christieperhaps the most powerful ammo the candidate has got since he started running for president back in, oh 2007 or so.

Congress' debt reduction supercommittee should consider overhauling the tax code and revamping Social Security, Medicare and a host of programs for the poor, a group of Senate Republicans urged Friday.

Nebraska insurance officials can't decide whether to recommend a state-based health insurance exchange or follow a proposed federal model until they know how much the national plan will cost, Nebraska Department of Insurance Director Bruce Ramge said.

The House on Thursday returned to an abortion issue that nearly sank President Barack Obama's health care law last year with legislation that bars an insurance plan regulated under the new law from covering abortion if any of its customers receive federal subsidies.

The billion-dollar health reform idea, how not to sweat open enrollment and the retirement conundrum