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Instead of imposing higher co-pays and rolling back health insurance coverage for state employees, Connecticut officials want their workers to get a colonoscopy to help cut costs.

The Senate's top Republican said Friday that lawmakers should not fear voter backlash for trying to pluck savings from Medicare as part of a debt-reduction effort because it will take a bipartisan accord to tackle the popular program.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has presented a health benefits proposal to the state's largest public worker union — at the bargaining table.

Illinois businesses would save about $500 million but give up on their biggest demand under a worker's compensation overhaul that key lawmakers called a tentative deal Thursday.

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Wisconsin's law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most public workers was struck down Thursday by a circuit court judge but the ruling will not be the final say in the union fight that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol earlier this year.