Health Care Reform

Large employers say they're committed to providing active employee health care benefits in the near future despite criticisms that health reform will erode employer-sponsored coverage, new analysis finds.

A new survey by the state of Vermont finds the number of residents without health insurance has dropped by nearly a third in the past seven years, mainly due to growth in government programs.

Florida economists on Thursday came out with a new price tag for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that is dramatically lower than the one cited earlier this year by Gov. Rick Scott.

With major health care reform changes planned for 2014, many employees are unaware of how this new marketplace will affect them, and its important that employers get in front of the necessary communication now, says Jackie Cuthbert, principal at Mercer, a human resources consulting firm in New York City.

More states are moving forward to implement health reform and the exchanges that play a major role in the law, the Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday.

Thousands of non-English speaking Floridians who go online to sign up for Medicaid and other welfare programs are met with a frustrating barrier the state's main webpage is only in English, even though the applications a few clicks away are translated in Spanish and Creole. Health advocates worry how...