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Health care costs have contributed to the demise of the guaranteed pension, and less money for retirement plans, as employers' investments in overall benefits packages has shifted.

The health care growth rate is falling, but employers aren't feeling any relief.

The GOP's health bill failed as defections by Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas, in addition to previous opposition by Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine, sank the measure. What's next? Repeal.

Besides the delay in the CBO's release of financial estimates of the revised health bill's impact, a senator's medical emergency adds a complication -- will it buy McConnell time to persuade the holdouts?

Do great work perks make up for a job you just don't like?

'Our study shows the cost of having a baby could escalate drastically under the changes proposed in the Senate health care bill -- and thats for having a healthy baby. If a woman has pregnancy complications, or the baby is born sick or prematurely, health care costs could skyrocket even...