Assets have begun steadily draining out of municipal bond funds as interest rates rise.

Warning to seniors on Medicare: If someone asks for your personal information for a state insurance exchange under the new health care law, he's probably a crook. Those exchanges don't apply to seniors.

The nation's health care spending will jump by 6.1 percent next year as the big coverage expansion in President Barack Obama's overhaul kicks in, government experts predicted Wednesday.

Top aides to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett plan to meet Monday with officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the first such meeting since he released his plan to use federal Medicaid expansion dollars to extend health insurance to hundreds of thousands of the working poor.