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Not all hospitals have fallen in line with the price transparency rules, and many were slow to do so.

According to AHA officials, "key aspects of [Kernodle's] decision, including the court's rejection of the FTC's reliance on a study regarding hospital mergers, were based on arguments made in the AHA's amicus brief."

Jeff Smedsrud that the draft Affordable Care Act individual health insurance market rules will make individual major medical insurance more attractive and more affordable in many markets.

Product designers are trying to prepare for the possibility that more employers will drop traditional group plans.

The Federal Jobs Guarantee Development Act, introduced last week by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., would establish a pilot jobs guarantee program in up to 15 high-unemployment communities nationwide.

For the owners of plan participants' drug stores, these can be a major source of stress.