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Hope dimming for a broad debt-limit deal, Congress and the White House scrambled Wednesday to salvage deficit-reduction talks while top congressional Republicans said the nation cannot afford to default on its obligations — for economic reasons and their party's own good.

In office just six months, Gov. Rick Scott has kept his campaign promises and then some: cutting corporate taxes, reducing the size of government, drug testing welfare recipients, making government workers pay into their pensions, and privatizing Medicaid.

Even millennials are rethinking their allegiance to President Barack Obama due to dismal economic progress.

Negotiations between the state and unions representing government workers are heating up over the state's demand that employees chip in part of their health care premiums.

What's the bottom line? For many employers, that is the single biggest question they have regarding pharmacy benefit plans. It's not always an easy question to answer.

Cigna announced Tuesday it will add at least 200 jobs in the next two years at its Bloomfield site in exchange for a $50 million package of tax credits and will change its headquarters from Philadelphia to the Connecticut location.