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RightOpt, a private health insurance exchange operated by Buck Consultants, has expanded to include retirees.

California splits, other states choose sides and CMS posts a model. UBA spots wrinkles.

U.S. job openings and overall hiring both rose to five-year highs in September, signaling improvement in the job market.

Lockton says that wellness programs, properly designed and implemented, can address the problem by helping obese workers lose weight.

The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits fell 21,000 to a seasonally adjusted 323,000 last week, the lowest since late September and further evidence of an improving job market.

Benefits for 1.3 million long-term unemployed people expire just three days after Christmas. Lawmakers say another 1.9 million people would miss out on the benefits in the first six months of next year.