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If the Obama administration wants the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be a success, it may want to do a better job marketing it to Latinos.

Sure, its from a comic strip. About corporate life. But it still worksprobably more than ever. And yet theres so much of it we take for grantedor simply forget how little of it we used at the turn of the century.

Sure, its from a comic strip. About corporate life. But it still worksprobably more than ever. And yet theres so much of it we take for grantedor simply forget how little of it we used at the turn of the century.

UnitedHealth Group's first-quarter earnings sank 14 percent, as medical costs dulled enrollment-fueled revenue gains for the nation's largest health insurer, which also expects federal budget cuts will pressure its performance the rest of the year.

The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health insurance fee could add about 1.7 percent to the cost of commercial coverage from a for-profit plan in 2014.

While the fate of the public exchanges under health reform is still up in the air as states continue to struggle with implementation, private exchanges are gaining momentum among insurers and employers alike.