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COBRA enrollment rates remain high even though laid-off workers aren't receiving any more federal help to pay for premiums.

Most large employers will make changes to their health benefits next year to comply with health care reform and to manage anticipated cost increases.

Guess that's what you get when you throw a bunch of insurance commissioners in a room and tell 'em to figure what Congress meant when they passed health care reform.

Seventy-one percent of carriers and employers insist health care reform is 'extremely positive' for the medical tourism industry. But obstacles remain.

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia will each receive $1 million to help improve health premium oversight, the Department of Health and Human Services announced this week.

Almost all (90 percent) of U.S. companies surveyed recently by Hewitt Associates say they anticipate losing their grandfathered health plan status by 2014, with the majority expecting to do so within the next two years.