Health Care Reform

The words “delay” and “depose" were written on a shell casing and a live round recovered in front of the New York Hilton Midtown, where UnitedHealth Group Inc. insurance chief Brian Thompson was fatally shot on Wednesday.

“As employers head into the new year, they face formidable challenges stemming from climbing health care costs, which are putting pressure on how employers manage their overall health and wellbeing programs," said Ellen Kelsay, president and CEO of Business Group on Health.

Andrew Sullivan got into insurance at Cigna, and he started out at Prudential in the group insurance business.

Obamacare users without subsidies tend to pay less and get less, Government Accountability Office investigators found.

The physician group is asking the Labor Department to apply Medicare Advantage plan-type rules, which as limits on repeat reviews for patients with chronic conditions, on ERISA plans.

The bipartisan legislation could affect 275 drugs, everything from the supply of weight-loss drugs to the supply of injectable saline solutions.