Health Care Reform

Giving workers cash to buy their own coverage violates the upcoming ban on annual benefits limits, officials say.

Before Dec. 15, an employer can enroll without meeting the 70 percent minimum.

A private competitor says its plan menu is better.

The new health insurance marketplace in Rhode Island, a centerpiece of the nationally mandated health care overhaul, passed a recent federal operations review "with flying colors" and is ready to open next month, the director said Thursday.

GOP leaders eager to avoid blame for a possible government shutdown next month appear confounded by conservatives' passion for using fast-approaching deadlines to derail the implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.

Executives think the future belongs to eHealth, ConnextionsHealth and Aon Hewitt.