Cost-Containment

Enrollment in high-deductible health insurance plans that can help consumers save for medical expenses climbed 14 percent this year and has jumped 87 percent since January 2008, according to the trade association America's Health Insurance Plans.

Nearly 10 percent of Virginia households have used short-term, high-interest payday, pawnshop and auto-title loans to make ends meet.

Stories are popping up everywhere about employers who are refusing to hire workers who smoke, or are tacking on a premium penalty, or even offering a quitting incentive, hoping to reduce health care costs and increase productivity.

A new lawsuit has been filed involving a financially troubled Missouri fund for injured workers.

Employers are taking advantage of health care reform’s retiree medical options to help employees prepare for retirement and enable current retirees to obtain more cost-effective health care coverage, according to the Sixth Annual Employer Survey on Retiree Medical Strategy.

A labor dispute is threatening to make a mess of the Tony Awards, forcing actors to cross picket lines to attend the red carpet for Broadway's biggest ceremony.