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Cigna announced Tuesday it will add at least 200 jobs in the next two years at its Bloomfield site in exchange for a $50 million package of tax credits and will change its headquarters from Philadelphia to the Connecticut location.

The federal government's systems for analyzing Medicare and Medicaid data for possible fraud are inadequate and underused, making it more difficult to detect the billions of dollars in fraudulent claims paid out each year, according to a report released Tuesday.

So now the states have a little more breathing room.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he would consider cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security if they were part of a "grand bargain' that includes tax increases.

Although death is not a particularly easy subject to discuss between agent and client, the topic at some point must be broached because, well, people don't live forever.

Turning the federal health care reform law into reality is moving slowly as it's being challenged in court, but a federal official says it's already being felt in North Carolina and other states.